Category: Patient stories
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Patient stories #4
I used to visit a patient every month to give his depot. He lived with his family who had immigrated, bought a house and because of the astronomical price of houses in the area, had to let out the most desirable part of the house in order to afford the mortgage. They were friendly people…
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Patient stories #3
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far away, I was NIC on a late shift. We had a patient in who was a frequent flyer, both of the boys in blue and our ward. The police had a nickname for him, let’s say they called him ‘Four Fingers Castle.’ What you need to know…
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Patient stories #2
A dangerous prisoner became psychotic. He was transferred to a high secure mental hospital on a S37. After some fighting he was treated with anti-psychotics and became well. NB it didn’t alter his dangerousness one whit. That wasn’t driven by his madness, in fact madness made him more disorganised and less dangerous – to his…
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Patient stories #1
Benny wasn’t quite sure why he’d come to the clinic… Benny Benedict came to the clinic looking for me and Lou. He wasn’t quite certain whether or not he needed to tell us something but fortunately the cautious side of him won out and he slowly spilled the lot. We never got to the bottom…