Surgery to quieten the yelling of a demented old man
The 84-year-old man's incessant yelling caused him to be unmanageable in all settings--at home with his aged wife, in nursing homes, and on the medical and psychiatric floors of a Veterans Administration Medical Center. A host of behavioural and pharmaceutical interventions were attempted unsuc...
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1987
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 1987, Volume: 13, Issue: 4, Pages: 195-197 |
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