284 Interacting with Their Patients
Yet diagnoses informed by personal experiences may conflict with
more conventional diagnostic assessments arrived at by other clinicians.
Suzanne described how her ‘‘hunch’’ that one patient’s symptoms re-
sulted from bipolar disorder collided with a professor’s view that drug
abuse was the cause.
I was convinced a patient was hypomanic to manic. I just knew it.
I could just feel it—his whole story. He vehemently denied any drug
use, and seemed honest. The attending said, ‘‘What’s this guy on?,’’
totally discre