Wonder surrounds a urine specimen from an aggressive older patient

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Wonder surrounds a urine specimen from an aggressive older patient

Jonathan Bentley

Jonathan Bentley

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You Are My Sunshine is the aged-care facility aggression-disarming song of choice [Image: Todd Kent on Unsplash]

GP Jonathan Bentley describes what happened when one of his normally cheerful older patients became aggressive

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