Factitious disorder

Schizophrenic patients relapse more frequently than individuals with other mental illness (Csernansky & Schuchart, 2002). About 70% of newly diagnosed schizophrenic patients relapse the first year and 90% the second year (Silverstein & Bellack, 2008). One reason schizophrenic patients relapse because of the insufficient outpatient healthcare model for the severely mentally ill. Outpatient care’s purpose is to decrease confinement in a healthcare setting by giving patients more independence…

Summary: In the book, 13 Reasons Why, you hear about the life of Hannah Baker and why it ended how it did and while she was still a young girl. Before Hannah decides to take her life, she records a series of tapes and passes them around to people who are the reasons why she took her life. As each person receives the tapes that Hannah recorded and realize that they are the reasons why she killed herself, there all seems to be problems between them. Some of the people recorded on the tapes don’t…

Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a novel which tells the story about how one man turns a power structured psychiatric hospital upside down with his anti-conformist ways. Kesey explores the dangers of conformity through his use of characterization. Aspects of characterisation are used to reflect the author’s views on social norms and how conformity can leave damaging effects on individuals. Kesey explores the effects repression and reflects his ideas on the natural world by…

In his book, Medicine in Seventeenth Century England (1974), Allen G. Debus, presents three definitions of quack from Dr. Johnson’s great dictionary: 1. A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. 2. A vain boastful pretender to physick; one who proclaims his own medical abilities in publick places. 3. An artful tricking practitioner in physick. (313) In other words, quack is corrupt and dishonest fraud, which is often found in the Victorian health care field. Charles Dickens…

Paul Bernardo (figure 1) was born on August 27th, 1964 at the Scarborough General Hospital in Ontario, Canada (Williams, 1999). Bernardo, along with his siblings, David and Debbie Bernardo, were raised in an unsafe environment (Williams, 1999). They witnessed domestic abuse between their mother, Marilyn Bernardo and their father, Kenneth Bernardo (Williams, 1999). In his early teenage years, he found out that his mother had had an affair with a former boyfriend meaning that Kenneth Bernardo was…

Fight Club is a movie that follows the daily life of the main protagonist. Actor Edward Norton plays the unnamed protagonist who is commonly just known as the “Narrator”. The narrator is plagued by powerful insomnia however he is refused any real medical attention. His doctor instead directs him toward a cancer support group so he can realize just how small his suffering is compared to others. The narrator is embraced within the support group as they believe he also suffers from cancer. This…

According to studies, people spend more time preparing to look good, while others are emotionless on how they look. Fake tanning has been around since the early 1900’s. In the 1920’s is when the idea of using a tanning bed became popular. Once tans became popular, sunburn was unavoidable, and soon the search was on for a project that would allow burn-free tanning. Meanwhile, researchers were studying how tanning beds are a danger to people’s health. On an average day 35% of American adults, 59%…

he would usually take them away from their families to an environment where they would be more susceptible to treatment. “Hippocrates' emphasis on the natural causes of diseases, on clinical observation, and on brain pathology as root of mental disorders was truly revolutionary; he believed that hysteria (the appearance of physical illness in the absence of organic pathology) was restricted to women and was caused by the uterus wandering to various parts of the body, pinning for children.”…

Jonbenet Ramsey was found murdered the morning after Christmas in her Boulder, Colorado home. Jonbenet was a six-year old beauty queen following in her mother’s footsteps when she was found in the basement of her home strangled to death. Like many homicides Jonbenet’s case is still unsolved. Based on the ransom note, timeline, and the Ramsey’s actions one can conclude that the Ramsey Family killed JonBenet. To begin, the ransom note is a substantial piece of evidence proving the Ramseys…

SMILE CORRECTION BY GINGIVAL DEPIGMENTATION AND LIP REPOSITIONING A CASE REPORT ABSTRACT Excessive gingival display during smiling (“gummy smile”) with hyperpigmented gums is an esthetic concern for the patients. Gummy smile can be managed by different treatment modalities based on specific diagnosis. This case report demonstrates the management of a 22 years old female patient with the chief complaint of dark gums and excessive gingival display while smiling due to hypertonic lip. Treatment…