Patient request from an emergency medicine casebook I'm reading: "I want a depo shot and a panic attack."
The outcome is also intriguing: "We referred the patient to the OB/GYN clinic for her 'depo shot,' but we did not provide her with a 'panic attack.'"
Oh geez, the next case has a figure with caption "Verbatim response of a patient who was asked why he urinated on three walls of his examination room"
The reason? He was "marking his territory."
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Key learning points
- Paruresis is a psychiatric condition that describes a social phobia of urinating in public bathrooms.
- This patient did not have paruresis.
