PSYCH 152: Psychiatric Morbidity Following Critical Illness
and the difficult task of rebuilding an ordinary life.
Medlock Holmes enters The Recovery Ward.
The monitors have stopped alarming. The ventilator has been disconnected. The infection has been treated. The patient has survived.
By conventional medical measures, the emergency is over.
Yet Holmes notices something strange.
The patient cannot remember parts of his admission, but vividly remembers terrifying hallucinations. He startles at the sound of medical equipment. A minor cough makes him fear that he is dying again. He cannot concentrate as he once could. His muscles remain weak. He has…
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