RT Book, Section
A1 Murtagh AO, John
A1 Bird, Sara
SR Print(0)
ID 1163948683
T1 Great mimics
T2 Murtagh's Cautionary Tales, 3rd Edition
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education (Australia) Pty Ltd
PP Sydney, Australia
SN 9781743767443
LK murtagh.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1163948683
RD 2024/04/24
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  inpatients.  She  was  soon  accommodated  in  a  secure  ward  and  was  assessed  by  the  medical  director  and  a  consultant  neurologist—two  extremely  brilliant  clinicians.