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Mr. Zacharia Z. thinks he had been kidnapped.

Mr. Zacharia Z. is between reality and delir. He even believes he had been kidnapped.

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Corine Mouton-Dorey

Corine Mouton-Dorey focuses her research on patient agency and accountability. Her PhD work on biomedical ethics identified the importance of the patients’voices in medical practice for better care, trust and justice in health. She has a practical experience with patients both as a cardiologist and as a qualitative researcher. She supports  the french-speaking part of the DIPEx project and work on the possibilities to enrich DIPEx process and outcomes with digital technology.

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Mr. Zacharia Z. thinks he had been kidnapped.

“And some guy came in and said “you need to be intubated right now”, and that’s the last thing I remember, until I woke up like about two weeks later in the ICU, with the hoses in me everywhere and strapped down. And so, and to be honest, when I woke up, I mean, I spent two weeks dreaming all kinds of really, really weird things, you know, I guess due to the fact that they used barbiturate to slow down your brain and I dreamt the weirdest things, just incredible. And when I finally came out of it, of course I was between all the nutty that I dreamed and the fact that they would put drops in my eyes and a little bit of cream occasionally, I couldn’t see very well. I had. and I really , other than the fact that I couldn’t see, I was strapped into a bed, it was difficult to see where I was, because it didn’t look like the same room that I got into at the beginning. Anyway, I ended up thinking that I’d been kidnapped, somewhere you know those dreams that I was sure I read articles about , and you have to be careful because they take you into a hospital, you were sick, and then they go somewhere and they try to get your company to pay for you to come back using their kidnap law, which in fact, was a thing in my contract, right? It was , it was probably what triggered it, I don’t know.”

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Corine Mouton-Dorey

Corine Mouton-Dorey focuses her research on patient agency and accountability. Her PhD work on biomedical ethics identified the importance of the patients’voices in medical practice for better care, trust and justice in health. She has a practical experience with patients both as a cardiologist and as a qualitative researcher. She supports  the french-speaking part of the DIPEx project and work on the possibilities to enrich DIPEx process and outcomes with digital technology.

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