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This Discharge Summary has been dictated in anticipation of the patient being discharged on December 12, 2013. At the time of processing of this report, the patient remains an inpatient with discharge from hospital pending. Mr. Yip is a 50-year-old married man originally from Hong Kong who lives with his wife and daughter in Toronto. He has not been working for the past 5 years. Previous to that he had been the owner of a restaurant. He attributed his inability to work over the past 5 years to his ongoing psychiatric difficulties. His wife does work as an accountant and is the financial supporter of the family at this time. The patient was admitted on November 29th after he took an overdose of approximately 50 tablets of Imovane. He told the staff that he had been increasingly distressed by the sensation of mucous being stuck in his throat for many years and that he could not go on living anymore. He had a sense that it was interfering with his breathing and swallowing. He believed it was keeping him from sleeping. He clearly indicated that his overdose was a deliberate attempt to e...

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