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It would be wrong to think of depression as normally seen in general practice as an illness of which crises are a feature: as is the case, for instance, with diabetes or appendicitis. Nevertheless the general practitioner will see a number of emergencies marked by extreme changes of behaviour in the patient, and these will include among others the delirium of congestive heart failure or pneumonia in the elderly, and the bizarre behaviour of hypoglycaemia.
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Romanis, R. (1987). Depressed patients. In: Pollitt, J.D. (eds) Psychiatric Emergencies in Family Practice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3191-6_5
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