title: Management of patients who overdose.
abstract: People who overdose appear to arouse a mixture of emotions in their attending doctors, some of which are associated with feelings of inadequacy on the doctors' part. If this group of people is approached in a logical and emotionally neutral faxhion, the problem becomes essentially a manageable one. Perhaps most importantly, by this method a reasonably accurate prediction can be made of whether the person will repeat this pattern of abnormal behaviour.
mesh_terms: D005194:Family Practice; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital; D011041:Poisoning / Q000628:therapy*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted