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A 31-year-old man is waiting to be seen in a busy emergency department, brought in by his brother, who says he has stopped his medication. He has schizophrenia…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 22-year-old apprentice is brought to a regional emergency department by friends at 11 pm after telling them he wanted to die. Six hours later his breath alcoh…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 44-year-old man attends the community mental health clinic. He has recurrent major depressive disorder and came home nine days ago after a two-week admission…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 76-year-old woman was admitted five days ago with a severe depressive episode. Her general practitioner started amitriptyline 75 mg at night three weeks ago a…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 58-year-old man was admitted three and a half days ago after a fall from a ladder; his wife said he drinks nightly at the club. He was settled and oriented fo…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man admitted with a first episode of psychosis started olanzapine six days ago and had the dose increased four days ago; he has also taken sertral…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
An 84-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer is admitted from her retirement village because over four days she has become drowsy by day, restless at nigh…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
You are the intern covering the orthopaedic ward at 2 am. A 79-year-old man, two days after hemiarthroplasty for a fractured neck of femur, is climbing over the…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 47-year-old truck driver is referred by his general practitioner with insomnia and low mood after two months of exhaustion. He is in bed for nine hours a nigh…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 46-year-old accountant is brought in by his wife. Over five weeks he has become convinced that his neighbours are broadcasting his thoughts to the street, and…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 71-year-old man is flown in from a remote Aboriginal community in the far north of Western Australia with his daughter, who says that over two years he has be…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
Eighteen months after her husband died, a 58-year-old woman is brought to the general practice by her daughter. She thinks about him for most of each day and ac…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A resident is completing the discharge summary for a woman treated for a first manic episode. The diagnosis was made at the bedside against the criteria in the…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A student writes up a new patient using a format taken from an older textbook: schizophrenia on Axis I, no personality disorder on Axis II, type 2 diabetes on A…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An intern reviews a 47-year-old man in the emergency department twelve hours after he swallowed twenty paracetamol tablets on the night his wife left him. He is…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 39-year-old man is brought to a regional Western Australian emergency department by police after climbing onto a shop roof shouting that transmitters have bee…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 19-year-old man with moderate depression agrees to start sertraline after a discussion of the options. He has no psychotic features, no manic history, takes n…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 15-year-old girl attends the adolescent mental health clinic alone. She has moderate depression and, after discussion, wants to start an antidepressant. She d…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A medical student presents a new admission at the morning meeting. She gives his age, occupation and living situation, the presenting complaint and its history,…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 61-year-old man was admitted with severe depression and pervasive hopelessness after a near-fatal overdose. Twelve days after starting an antidepressant the n…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist