Totally. Any feedback I give is usually just to calm and encourage the patient when they are stressed out by the challenge.

Thanks for your great comments. I do vary the words (because why not), but yes, nothing in the room. I'd add this: I never offer patronizing comments of encouragement, unless the patient is getting distraught (i.e. there probably is some cognitive impairment).

I’m actually wondering if he memorized those 5 words just for this interview. They would be particularly easy to teach someone to remember. In Trump’s brain: 1) who am I talking to? PERSON. 2) what types of people are there? WOMAN, MAN. 3) what am I looking at? CAMERA. 4) why is the camera here? TV.

I didn’t ace the test the first time. :(

I’ll use it along with the bedside WAB, or if dysphagia patients present with cog deficits during eval, because it’s fast.

I consider the MOCA more useful as a screening tool than a proper, full assessment

Haha, no, I think he was using an example of things he could see because he couldn’t remember the words used in the assessment.

So have you EVER seen a version of this test that uses the words Trump is vomiting out?  Because it appears that “Person, woman, man, camera, TV” (which is a fucking acronym) are not even the words used on the assessment.

Yikes! I hope your brain and body are okay!

Ugh, dammit. Here. Take them. Take them all. [chef kiss]

COTD. Well done.

You win today. 

LOL

You have to have a brain to injure it traumatically. 

So, I administer the MOCA a lot. As a clinician, I consider the MOCA more useful as a screening tool than a proper, full assessment, which is why I dislike it. However, it’s so easy and quick to administer, that I use it in a pinch. It’s not psychometrically appropriate to determine whether or not a person has…

this. 

Someone who is equally self destructive but doesn’t get a quarter of the sympathy is Azealia Banks, she’s bi-polar and the industry shits on her.

Absolutely. I still hate mentioning to people that I was institutionalized for years, but I’m an open book about everything else. I partially blame the media for that, as the common portrayal of institutions is still stuck in the 50s. I’ll talk about my self-inflicted scars to people well before I discuss my teen…

If by “very Christian” you mean “hides behind his religion as an excuse for sexism and homophobia” then that explains the “somehow.”