Consultations in emergency medicine

✍ Scribed by George Podgorny

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 93 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1097-6760
• DOI: 10.1016/s0196-0644(81)80247-8

✦ Synopsis

Suicidal Patients in the Emergency Department

Q

What are the medical implications in the emer-• gency department while taking care of a pleasant, talkative, 20-year-old woman who talks lightheartedly about suicide? The patient's brother and boyfriend dismiss her threats as a manipulative and attention-getting device.