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Academic Psychiatry, VOL. 33, No. 3

REGULAR | May 01, 2009

Three Ds and Three More Ds

James A. Bourgeois, M.D.

Academic Psychiatry 2009;33:192-192. 0085

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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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