The consultant had long prepared for this morning. He had met the management, reviewed the accounting, talk with the staff, market research, developing a strategy. Remediation. This should now be presented today tomorrow. The PowerPoint presentation, video projector, a laptop, hand-outs, everything was perfect. Perfectly dressed and prepared was the consultant. But his performance became confused. So confused that the company's management called for a half hour for an ambulance. The doctor found the employee, embarrassed, in the meeting room before coffee cans. A mid-50-year-old, well dressed, but completely disoriented, perplexed, troubled, almost panicked. Unfortunate. Vital signs normal. Perhaps a strange stroke? Withdrawal? Amphetamines?
Careful questions in camera: age, name, family, occupation unknown. Consultant. The order was recalled. But everything else, time and place? As he was coming here? What had happened? Why the fuss? Why a doctor and paramedics?
the ambulance always the same questions every 30 seconds: "Please, excuse me, where are we Where are we going?" The doctor explained. Once, twice, again and again.
30 seconds later: "Please, excuse me, where are we Where are we going?" Always in the same distressed tone. Apparently, he forgets everything the same again. The memory will be deleted immediately. Only with questions about past events, it is distracting for a while, then again: "Please, excuse me, where are we Where are we going?"
Later, the doctor has seen patients from time to time with such a strange short-term amnesia, still perplexed, alarmed difficult, even the relatives who had to repeatedly explain the circumstances.
This was also the last Emergency Service, on Sunday. Eventually he remembered the name of this disease again: "Transient global amnesia (TGA)" or "Amnestic episode" . Since he was able to calm the relatives. And write a report about it.
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