An extraordinary story, this: during treatment, one regular patient, known as "Pops", spoke of the recent death of his wife.
Especially pertinent are the delicate drawing-collages of a female patient known only as St., which are carefully pieced together from the narrow borders of newspapers.
In a similar case from the nineteen-nineties, a patient known as R.N. was left with a vocabulary of six words: "well," "yeah," "yes," "no," "shit," and "goddammit".
In the case of a patient known as SM, he mistook a harmonica for a cash register.
In the 1970s, at what was then the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London, the neurologist Lawrence Weiskrantz encountered a patient, known as "DB", with a blind spot in his left visual field, caused by brain damage.
There have been a very few documented cases of broad amnesia in people who were otherwise more or less functional, the most famous probably being a patient known to medical literature as "H.
Hospitals keep track of a category of patient known as "left without being seen," a high number of which is a bad sign.
Schacter's interest in the connection between memory and imagination stretches back to the nineteen-eighties, when he and his mentor, Endel Tulving, interviewed a profoundly amnesiac patient known by the initials K. C. A victim of a motorcycle accident, K. C. had become incapable of forming episodic memories.
The first patient known to have had swine flu, Édgar Hernández, a small boy in a village in the eastern state of Veracruz, saw a doctor on April 2nd.
The case is vitally important to the Jung edifice because the patient, known as the Solar Phallus Man, reported a vision of the sun with a phallus, supposedly a feature of the ancient pagan cult of Mithras.
For example, a doctor with an uninfected patient known to inject drugs might choose to put that patient on daily tenofovir, just as some doctors do with uninfected but promiscuous gay male patients, or uninfected patients with infected regular sex partners.
