Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Hallucinations in Hospital Pose Risk to Elderly - NYTimes.com

Hallucinations in Hospital Pose Risk to Elderly

Wow! I never heard of this before this article! Interesting!

No one who knows Justin Kaplan would ever have expected this. A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian with a razor intellect, Mr. Kaplan, 84, became profoundly delirious while hospitalized for pneumonia last year. For hours in the hospital, he said, he imagined despotic aliens, and he struck a nurse and threatened to kill his wife and daughter.

Read the article at the link above!

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