nonpsychiatric
adjective
non·psy·chi·at·ric
ˌnän-ˌsī-kē-ˈa-trik 
: not of, relating to, or used in psychiatry
nonpsychiatric drugs
nonpsychiatric disorders
: not providing, receiving, or involving psychiatric care or treatment
nonpsychiatric physicians
a nonpsychiatric patient
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Significant training about suicide usually does not begin until the third year of medical school, during psychiatric rotations in clinical settings, which gives the message that this subject is of limited importance to doctors in nonpsychiatric fields.
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Rodolfo Bonnin, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2022
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nonpsychiatric
adjective
non·psy·chi·at·ric
-ˌsī-kē-ˈa-trik
: not psychiatric
nonpsychiatric patients
nonpsychiatric medical personnel—L. S. Holsenbeck
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