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Three Ds and Three More Ds
James A. Bourgeois
Academic Psychiatry 2009;33:192-192.
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis

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Three Ds:
Depression
Dementia
Delirium
Depression complicates Dementia
Delirium complicates Dementia
Delirium resembles Depression
Dementia resembles Depression
Three Ds impair the patient and vex the physician.
Then,
Three more Ds:
Depression begets Despair
Dementia begets Disorientation
Delirium begets Death
Two triangles:
D+D+D
May lead to D+D+D
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