YO SG : Family Medicine

An elderly man with past hx of stroke is admitted for falls.

The reversible causes of falls were addressed. Now he still has falls. He has no relatives or carers. He wants to go home and not to a sheltered home.

He has no cognitive impairment.

What do you do? Allow him to go home with risk of falling or “force” him to go to a sheltered home/ nursing home against his will?

A 16 yr old girl was admitted to a hospital for dengue. She later tells a medical student, X, that she is pregnant and the father is the uncle who lives with her. She begs X not to tell the “authorities”.

1. What should X do?

2. What are the issues involved?