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Is this patient psychotic? Or Delirious?
Delirious or psychotic? Sid Hamberlin, Jail Commander, Bonneville County Jail In my career in corrections, I have seen 4 or 5 cases in which a patient was thought to be acutely psychotic, but actually...
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Is It Possible to Withdraw From both Alcohol and Opiates at the Same Time?
Medicine in the Future. I recently participated in a Webinar entitled “Managing Alcohol Withdrawal in the Correctional Setting.” During the question and answer section of the Webinar, a question was...
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“Bath Salts,” A Review.
It used to be that “Bath Salts” were, well, salts that you would use in a bath. Not anymore! Nowadays, “Bath Salts” refers to a designer drug of abuse that is marketed like traditional bath salts to...
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Essential Pearls from Essentials
Essentials of Correctional Medicine was held last week in Salt Lake City, Utah and included some great talks. Today’s post is a list of Pearls I gleaned from the conference speakers. The definition of...
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What Makes a Good Medical Scoring System?
My good friend Al Cichon wrote the following comments to me about my article on the 10 Point Pain Scale. Use of a ‘scale’ to measure subjective factors is a true oxymoron (heavy on the moron part). The...
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