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| The nurse's dilemma | | Author(s) | D Sellman |
| Journal title | Nursing Times, 2 December 1976 |
| Pages | pp 1894-1895 |
| Keywords | Hypochondria ; In-patients. |
| Annotation | What should the nurse's attitude be towards an older patient who wants to be ill? Insistence that the patient is not ill is to deny the psychiatric abnormality which makes her say she is. But tolerance of her belief is unlikely to help her improve. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-930714121 A |
| Classmark | ENS: LF7 * |
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