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State of Fear
October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Struggling for Rationality “This patient,” I said to myself, “is going home.” I know. She’s 85 with the dreaded complaint of “Altered Mental Status” described by the family as a brief period of “staring.” No generalized seizure activity, you understand, and no syncope (fainting), slurring of speech, facial droop, drooling, weakness, confusion, sweating, fever, nausea, [...]