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A 22-year-old apprentice electrician has recovered from a first episode of psychosis and is well on aripiprazole. He lives with his parents, has no debts, showe…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 31-year-old man with schizophrenia has had four admissions in 18 months. He lives alone in a boarding house, keeps about one clinic appointment in five, and e…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
You are the intern on a surgical ward. A 68-year-old woman, four days after mastectomy, tells the night nurse she may as well not wake up in the morning. She ha…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 46-year-old carpenter has had a major depressive episode for seven months. He completed eight weeks of sertraline 100 mg daily with no change, then twelve wee…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 16-year-old girl has been treated for a first episode of psychosis and is well on aripiprazole. She missed most of Year 11 and wants to return part time. Her…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 24-year-old man had a first episode of schizophrenia nine months ago and has remained well on risperidone. He lives with his mother, who gave up her part-time…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 19-year-old university student with anorexia nervosa is admitted to a medical ward weighing 38 kg (body mass index 14.2 kg/m2). Her heart rate is 40 beats per…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 27-year-old man with schizophrenia has been well for 18 months on paliperidone palmitate and attends a community mental health team. He lives with his parents…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 41-year-old woman has had panic attacks with avoidance of buses and shopping centres for two years. Another doctor started diazepam 5 mg twice daily eight mon…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 34-year-old primary school teacher describes six months of constant worry, difficulty getting to sleep and irritability that is now affecting her teaching. Sh…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 34-year-old Aboriginal man attends a general practice in a regional Western Australian town six weeks after his uncle died. He sleeps poorly, has stopped goin…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 58-year-old woman who came to Australia from Afghanistan four years ago is brought to the emergency department by her adult son. For a week she has cried most…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 15-year-old girl has lost 11 kg over eight months. She eats from a short list of permitted foods, exercises for two hours daily and says she is still too fat;…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 3-year-old boy is brought by his mother, who says he never sits still, runs off in car parks and has been asked to leave two childcare centres. He was born at…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 35-year-old intern is caring for a 62-year-old woman with alcohol-related liver disease on a general medical ward. She is the same age as his mother and speak…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 29-year-old woman known to the community mental health service comes to the emergency department at 11 pm after an argument with her partner. She is tearful a…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 26-year-old woman has presented to the emergency department nine times in two years after cutting her forearms. She describes chronic emptiness, intense and u…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 22-year-old university student in a wheat-belt town has had six weeks of low mood, poor concentration and loss of interest since failing two units. There is n…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 38-year-old woman has a third depressive episode. It began four months after her mother died and she moved interstate for work, leaving the friends and commun…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 29-year-old woman has had eight episodes over four months in which her heart pounds, she cannot get enough air, her hands tingle and she becomes certain she i…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common