This Poem was Submitted By: Lorraine Dorff On Date: 2000-06-10 18:17:22 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Patient Denies Pain

Patient denies pain   Presents without affect   Baseline speech rapid   Family history ETOH   High social functioning   Reports memory loss    Admits of skepticism   Reality testing good   Agrees:  needs to set boundaries   but how?     Appropriate boundaries might    exclude those for whom patient    once felt love Patient denies pain   Upset that lab test results   were reported by non-g-d-like   underling.  Wants to know,    “How can you promise me   this won’t happen again?”   Admits to anger at non-denial denial Patient denies pain   No objective failure   but plenty of subjective distress   Presses for long-term, best-guess   I-won’t-hold-you-to-it prognosis   Attempt is made to offer alternative   therapies, but patient declines treatment Patient denies pain

Copyright © June 2000 Lorraine Dorff

Additional Notes:
ETOH = chart notation for alchoholism


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