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Module: Mental Health
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- Weight loss in an immigrant girl
- She's just putting it on
- I just don't know how to help my wife anymore!
- A confused family
- I think I am going to die
- Sonia - an emergency department presentation
- Unusual behaviour in a middle-aged woman
- A new family to town
- Cate and Allen
- But she was good as gold a few days ago!
- But he really is a good man
- A young man and his black dog
- I have very important work to do, please let me do it!
- I wish this would all be over
- A man on a mission
- I am not well
- Was it a serious suicide attempt?
But she was good as gold a few days ago!
Author(s):
Dr Felicity Ng,
Senior Lecturer,
Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Australia.
Overview:
This case explores the assessment of cognition and consciousness in medical settings. This is a difficult area and one which graduating students and experienced practitioners alike find challenging.
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