PSYCH 105: Medical Health in Schizophrenia
Medlock Holmes is called to investigate a disturbing pattern.
The records appear unrelated.
A man with schizophrenia dies from a myocardial infarction in his fifties.
A woman develops diabetes that remains undetected for years.
Another patient is repeatedly treated for anxiety while an underlying respiratory illness worsens.
Someone else survives psychosis but dies from a preventable infection.
Holmes spreads the files across a long forensic table.
The pattern is unmistakable.
People with schizophrenia die approximately a decade or more earlier than the general population. Their mortality is…
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