diagnostic reasoning
Clinical teaching and practical ideas for your next study session.
Medical Education
Poorly Controlled Diabetes: When Is Depression Due to It?
A high A1C does not settle whether a depressive syndrome is caused by diabetes. Learn how to distinguish a direct medical cause from co-occurring major depression and diabetes distress.
Case Discussion
One Patient, Two Episodes: Reassessing FND After Intentional Illness Induction
Documented intentional insulin induction may support a later factitious-disorder formulation if the full criteria are met. It does not, by itself, prove that earlier functional weakness was deliberate.