Week Starter - The Ward Rounds . . Hernia/Hydrocele, Post-Operative Recovery . . Delusion/Hysteria . . Convulsion - Fits . . High Fever
July 28th Monday morning ward-rounds were mine to conduct. I went about them with some of the nursing staff. I observed that certain notable patients such as the 12 year old with the Enteritis, had over the weekend been discharged and replaced by new cases. Our Hernia/Hydrocele case seemed to be fairly recovering post-operatively, today being the 6th day. I later settled down at the out-patients clinic. I admitted this woman who acted demented, not saying a word to me as I tried to engage her. This was after she walked into my consulting room all by herself. She was brought to hospital by a colleague of hers who would later act as the informant, and later joined by the patient's older and younger siblings who had been called. At one point during the information gathering, she became slightly aggitated and confused-looking, never uttering a word. A widow of 2 years who lives with her kids, the oldest being 13 years, she had exhibited a mild trait of delusion for which she had been s...