A man who called hospitals to account

A man who borrowed cars.

robbery when his wife came to the neurology department at our hospital, in May, 1997, to ask for advice. At the age of 33, her husband had had a subarachnoid haemorrhage due to a ruptured aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery, and had undergone surgery a few days later. Up to then, he had no medical or psychiatric history, and had never been in trouble. He was married, had a daughter, a...

Who Is This Man?

The man who claimed to be a paedophile.

A psychiatrist recounts a case of a man presenting with severe depression who claimed to have abused children and his pet dog. Clinical management of the case hinged on whether this claim was true, a lie or delusional. The uncertainty over this raised complex ethical dilemmas regarding confidentiality and protection of the public (and animals).

Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief – but Who Is Who in the Capitalist Economy

The thesis of this paper is that a free-market capitalist economy is biased against supplying basic needs of poor consumers and also biased against creating inventing and using green technology. We begin by identifying the patterns of perverse logic in the system of market supply and in the process of technological advance under capitalism. The first pivotal problem is that economic decision ma...

A young man who could not walk.

Infections affecting the central nervous system caused by Blastomyces dermatitidis are rare but curable. We describe a case of a 24-year-old man who presented to the emergency department with progressive bilateral lower extremity weakness over 1 month. On the day of admission, he had minimal muscle strength and was hyperreflexic in the lower extremities. Sensation, however, was intact. Skin exa...