Comments on: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/04/local-man-dies-of-neuroleptic.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:50:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ol Cranky http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/04/local-man-dies-of-neuroleptic.html/comment-page-1#comment-52592 Ol Cranky Sun, 01 May 2005 20:38:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/04/18205.html#comment-52592 My experience with psych drugs is pretty limited (I worked on the development of a neuroleptic over 7-8 years ago) and even I know you should pay close attention to your patients on neuroleptics because of classic AE profile of the class. Good clinical sense dictates that any patient using neuroleptics presenting with these symptoms should be evaluated specifically for NMS - for crying out loud, he was an inpatient they saw daily! My experience with psych drugs is pretty limited (I worked on the development of a neuroleptic over 7-8 years ago) and even I know you should pay close attention to your patients on neuroleptics because of classic AE profile of the class. Good clinical sense dictates that any patient using neuroleptics presenting with these symptoms should be evaluated specifically for NMS – for crying out loud, he was an inpatient they saw daily!

]]> By: owlish http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/04/local-man-dies-of-neuroleptic.html/comment-page-1#comment-52562 owlish Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:08:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/04/18205.html#comment-52562 It may very well be that most current psychiatric diagnoses have some organic basis. Neurosyphillis being a prime historical example. I don't know how that relates to "how their symptoms are assumed to be made up or exaggerated."<br/><br/>The scary thing is, a fairly classic case of NMS not being recognized in a psychiatric hospital, make me wonder how often this occurs unrecognized in an outpt setting. It may very well be that most current psychiatric diagnoses have some organic basis. Neurosyphillis being a prime historical example. I don’t know how that relates to “how their symptoms are assumed to be made up or exaggerated.”

The scary thing is, a fairly classic case of NMS not being recognized in a psychiatric hospital, make me wonder how often this occurs unrecognized in an outpt setting.

]]> By: Kate http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/04/local-man-dies-of-neuroleptic.html/comment-page-1#comment-52541 Kate Mon, 25 Apr 2005 04:22:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/04/18205.html#comment-52541 I'm not a doctor, but I have been a psychiatric patient (hopefully, that won't make you discount everything I'm about to say) in several mental health hospitals. In my observation of how mental patients in general are treated and perceived, and how their symptoms are assumed to be made up or exaggerated, it wouldn't surprise me if more mental illness was found to be organic in nature, or originating from some other disease. I’m not a doctor, but I have been a psychiatric patient (hopefully, that won’t make you discount everything I’m about to say) in several mental health hospitals. In my observation of how mental patients in general are treated and perceived, and how their symptoms are assumed to be made up or exaggerated, it wouldn’t surprise me if more mental illness was found to be organic in nature, or originating from some other disease.

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