Archive for May, 2008
Demented!
It’s that time of the year when I start to review patient with dementia and very topical it is too at the moment. As the Kings Fund has released a new report on the short fall in mental health spending and the increased amount of patients with dementia. It states the number of people with dementia [...]
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Last week was one of those where all my patients seemed to have a need to drop their trousers, hitch up their skirts and generally reveal themselves in ways they rarely would, even after a night in the pub.
As I said only last week history taking is a vital part of clinical assessment, but when [...]
Lessons in History…
Taking a history from a patient is a challenge, sometimes the patient will give one word answers and sometimes it’s difficult to get the patient to stop talking. None-the-less a good and comprehensive history is essentially….
Is that Gina from Code blog?
Here is an example of why….
Little girl tells mummy she put a bead up her [...]
