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In 1982, I was asked by a general practitioner to urgently see a 72-year-old man who earlier that day had tried to break down a door at the back of his house in order to escape a perceived intrusion by armed men. It was our habit then to see most new psychiatric referrals at home typically accompanied by medical students who enjoyed escaping the hospital for a ride in my car.
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McKeith, I. (2016). Unexplained Delirium, Atypical Dementia, and Prodromal DLB. In: Priller, J., Rickards, H. (eds) Neuropsychiatry Case Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42190-2_1
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