We had a letter about a patient. Nothing too unusual about that. The patient was on a ward, having been there for a goodly length of time, detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 for treatment of delusions and hallucinations and passivity. It was the.
Topics: liberty, MHA 1983

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No sooner had I posted on laws on Friday, then Dr Grumble posted about legal matters on Saturday. Odd how themes pop up. It got me thinking. How much of my study time, over the last year, has been updates on clinical matters? Mostly I do this online..
Topics: MCA 2005, MHA 1983

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I've a lady who has a mood disorder who I've been seeing for a few years, now. As time's ticked by, she's also developed dementia. She recently had an acute admission, onto a medical ward that's busy, rather like this . Staff are..
Topics: liaison psychiatry, medicine, Patient Experience

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Yesterday I described a lady who had schizophrenia , but had been managing fairly well. She had emerging deficits and had historically reacted to command hallucinations and delusional ideation that, to a modest degree, adversely affected her (e.g. in...
Topics: Patient Experience, psychiatry

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I'm not happy with wards. Well, to be blunt, I'm not happy with the standards of care on acute medical and surgical wards. I'm not in the habit of bashing colleagues, so I won't. There may well be understandable reasons for why care has.
Topics: Dementia, medicine, nursing staff, Patient Experience

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