Left At Home

Published: July 24, 2007, 9:23 pm

First off a private message - Thanks Darren, the gift is very much appreciated, you shouldn't have. I've written a bit about not wanting to leave people who I am called to at home, but there are times when for one reason or another patients do get left behind. Take for example the fifty year old woman who had supposedly suffered from a stroke. We had turned up and she was lying on the floor not talking to anyone. Her husband and son were standing over her, obviously worried. It was tricky to assess her - English isn't her first language and she wasn't speaking much anyway. So I checked all the usual things including some basic neurological tests. Everything was normal. There is a thing that some people do, some cultures more than others, when they find themselves losing an argument they 'collapse'. Normally you can tell these straight away by the telltale symptoms of faking a collapse such as keeping your eyes screwed shut when I try to lift an eyelid. This was the feeling

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