RT Book, Section
A1 Murtagh, John
SR Print(0)
ID 1124553873
T1 Great mimics
T2 Cautionary Tales: Authentic Case Histories from Medical Practice, 2e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB The McGraw-Hill companies
PP Sydney, Australia
SN 9780070285408
LK murtagh.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1124553873
RD 2024/04/20
AB It  was  in  the  1960s  when  I  first  met  the  one  truly  ‘mad’  person  that  I  encountered  in  my  medical  career.  I  had  just  commenced  a  short  rotation  as  a  psychiatric  RMO  at  a  reputable  Melbourne  psychiatric  hospital.  The  patient  was  a  52-year-old  Londoner  who  had  migrated  to  Australia  with  her  husband  and  son.  She  had  been  ‘certified’  to  the  hospital  with  the  presumptive  diagnosis  of  ‘mania—for  management’!  Taking  a  history  was  difficult  as  she  was  forever  restless,  distracted  and  had  flights  of  ideas.  Furthermore  she  had  an  alluring  ‘fetching’  body  language  which  led  to  sexual  escapades  in  the  hospital  grounds  with  the  inevitable  willing  male  inmates.  She  was  soon  accommodated  in  a  secure  ward  and  was  assessed  by  the  medical  director  and  a  consultant  neurologist—two  extremely  brilliant  clinicians.