Thursday, February 15, 2007

Still in psychiatry

Well.. I accepted a permanent post at another psychiatric hospital in Cape Town. I'll leave the name anonymous as I plan to blog about everything I experience there without shame.
I'm having a serious professional identity crisis at work!! I workas an occupational therapist in an acute male admissions i.e. high turn over of patients with little time for rehab. My role is not easily defined in this setting as it can be incredibly broad! The team is very excited about my arrival however I still need to do some job carving for myself! Eish... its really testing my ability to be assertive!!
I can surely say that I hardly have a dull day!!
One of our patients is convinced he will get sponsorship to host a huge musical event and donate a few of his millions to us. Nice hah? Now although there might be a slim chance that this is true in his current psychotic state there is very unlikely that he will be able to execute such an event.
As a rule we always check out the credibility of delusions with family members - one patient really is a millionaire (for what its worth).

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