hh_clubs | Activity I, Term XXVI: Healers' Association of Hogwarts

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Activity: Patient Profiles
Points: 1st/2nd/3rd/Participation Only: 50/40/30/10 points
Deadline: Monday May 20, 2013 at 11:00 pm UTC
Details: Vote for your first, second, and third choice patient profiles using the code provided in the box. Voting will not be counted towards participation, but I'd appreciate if everyone, not even those with profiles below, popped in to cast their vote. Post votes in replies to the main post, and all comments are screened. Use the patient's name to specify each choice.

Name: John Doe (#1)
Age: estimated 35-40 years
Prescribed length of stay: three months; to be re-evaluated at that time
Ward: Spell damage
Symptoms upon admission to St. Mungo's: head trauma - severe contusions on forehead and top of head, loss of memory, nausea
Diagnosis: severe head injury; dissociative amnesia not related to innjury (possible Obliviation)
Treatments so far: Murtlap Essence on head contusions, memory potions, Muggle hypnosis and cognitive behavioural therapy
Progress: Head injury is fully healed; no nausea; little progress on amnesia problem
Other Patient Information:
The patient, John Doe, was found unconcious outside of a shop in Knockturn Alley and brought into St. Mungo's at approximately 03:00 on 11 March 2013, suffering from apparent head injury. After stopping the bleeding, healers administered Murtlap Essence onto the wounds with success - the wounds healed fully. Doe woke up at 14:00 on 12 March 2013 with extreme nausea and no memory of who he was. The initial prognosis was memory loss caused by head trauma, but this was later recanted as Doe's particular type of memory loss was not consistent with the type of memory loss associated with his injury. After further examination, Doe appears to have been the victim of Obliviation; Aurors have speculated the injury was to dissuade healers from considering the amnesia to be magically-inflicted. Doe has been moved to a private, guarded room as a precaution.

Treatment for the memory loss has been extremely frustrating for John Doe. He cannot recall his name, where he lives, or anything that could help identify him. Healers have administered a variety of memory potions; these potions have helped Doe to have 'glimpses of insignificant nonsense', in his words. The following information was recalled after a fifth potion:

- While he spoke in a London accent when first waking up, it was soon uncovered that this was a case of mimicking, something that is extremely rare. After time, his natural accent replaced the one he had copied from his healer, and it is assumed Doe is from the Glasgow area.
- His door number was 317, though he cannot recall a street name, city, or even colour of the door.
- His barber charged him a bowl of pumpkin soup and a lightly buttered scone for his bi-weekly haircuts.
- He was able to recall detailed information about food preparation, indicating that he may work in the restaurant industry.

Healers continue to administer memory potions to Doe, while also reaching out to specialized healers that practice Muggle psychotherapy. Doe has responded well to cognitive behavioural therapy; while it has yet to provide any new memories, it has helped Doe greatly in dealing with the emotional distress that comes with memory loss. The healer performing this therapy believes a breakthrough is possible and very likely.

Name: Sirius Orion Black
Age: 16
Prescribed length of stay: Until the spell wares off -- should take approximately one week!
Ward: Janus Thickney Ward (4th Floor)
Symptoms upon admission to St. Mungo's: Stiff walking, Limp, Baggy/Large/Tented Pants, hot sweats, furrowed brows, shifty eyes, excessive worrying,
Diagnosis: Was hit with the "erecto" curse by, from what he claims, a jealous person that has his own problems getting things "straight"
Treatments so far: (this could be potions, spells, etc.) Calming Draughts, No visitors. Boring books. Homework. If there are visitors, try and make them, *ahem* not so attractive? But knowing this guy, he'll find anything attractive.
Progress: It appears the patient is still erected after two days. Nothing will work, and his palms are well, very much like a gorilla. We've been applying a salve to the skin we can find to try and remove the hair -- still not much being removed, or, plenty being removed and just brought back. Damn kids.
Other Patient Information: Please be warned that this young man is a flirt. His techniques vary from winking to charming the pants off of the nurses. Heck, I'm pretty sure he'll flirt with men too, as there's often a sandy-haired kid that he seems very close with. Not only that but most of the time, wherever he is, there is trouble in the form of another 16 year old, but one with jet-black hair and glasses. Please, whatever you do do not let these two roam the halls together! The last time the kid with the glasses came around, they decided to steal one of those wheelchair things, put the patient in it and magically charm it to go over 200 miles an hour in the hallways. Not only did this cause mayhem, but it ruined poor Mrs. Tuffles and she had to go back to the waiting room and instead of getting warts removed, she needed to get furballs removed. So for the sanity of everyone, don't let these two near one another.

Name: Lavender Brown
Age: 16
Prescribed length of stay: As long as the incessant giggling persists (at least overnight).
Ward: Third Floor: Potions and Plant Poisioning
Symptoms upon admission to St. Mungo's: Since being admitted, Miss Brown has not been able to cease her giggling, even to the point of experiencing loss of breath and redness in the face. She seems unable to even speak through the giggles, making it very difficult to determine what caused it in the first place.
Diagnosis: Uncontrollable Giggling
Treatments so far: We have administered Calming Draught to Miss Brown in an attempt to ebb her giggling and have been forced to use a modified Anapneo spell to assist her in breathing when the giggles became overwhelming.
Progress: The use of Calming Draught has managed to bring her giggles down from a high-pitched tittering to a more gentle – though still debilitating – chuckle.
Other Patient Information: Miss Brown has thus far appeared even-tempered about her situation, though this may simply be a side-effect of her Uncontrollable Giggling. She has put up very little resistance to our treatments, but has also given us no indication that she is even aware of the serious illness that has befallen her, nor has she offered up any explanation of how she came to be in such a state. Furthermore, one of her fellow students – a Miss Hermione Granger, who helped accompany Miss Brown to St. Mungo’s – has informed us that giggling is not out of character for Miss Brown, and that this may not be a case of our patient being affected by a Laugh-Inducing Potion, but, rather, a matter of her being a little too giggly about something. Hopefully our observations for the next 24-hours will prove fruitful in deciding which is the case.

Name: Melinda Marplegint
Age: 24
Prescribed length of stay: 3 to 4 weeks depending on progress
Ward: 3rd Floor (Potion and Plant Poisoning)
Symptoms upon admission to St. Mungo's: uncontrollable giggling, sometimes interrupted by short screams for help
Diagnosis: probable poisoning by Alihotsy
Treatments so far: Two drops of Derriksson's Strongest Essence of Dittany in a morning drink (tea, coffee) and a cup of Kelly's Gracious Herb of Grace 3 times a day for four weeks. After that, gradual lowering of the treatment and addition of a mouthful of mistletoe berries at 4pm everyday for two weeks.
Progress: into the second week of the treatment ; so far Ms Marplegint's giggling has gotten quieter and more slow-paced.
Other Patient Information: Upon her admission Ms Marplegint seemed absolutely distressed at her condition. She apparently got poisoning after a friend offered to chew on what he thought to be recreational drugs popular in the Muggle world. They were obviously misinformed as everything points out to Alihotsy poisoning ; the uncontrollable giggling is characteristic of such a thing. In her terror of this situation, Ms Marplegint would let out desperate screams for help any second she wasn't giggling. After she was taken in the ward and properly taken care of, however, she promptly calmed down, and the treatment seems to take effect just fine. Some family members and friends have visited. She has been occasionally heard to mumble bitter words about a certain "Half-Blood junkie" -- this doesn't seem to be a reaction to her treatment, however, but a reference to the person responsible for her poisoning

Name: Dennis Creevey
Age: 17
Prescribed length of stay: Two more months.
Ward: Creature-Induced Injuries Ward, against his will.
Symptoms upon admission to St. Mungo's: Burns, scratches, and lots of bruises.
Diagnosis: Fight against a Blast-Ended Skrewt or some other small fire-breathing creature. Possible delirium for insisting that he hadn't been near a creature regardless of the proof on his body.
Treatments so far: chocolate (now a cure being abused by patient; cut back chocolate consumption), burn-healing paste, Murtlap Essence to prevent scarring.
Progress: Injuries are healing at an extremely slow pace; may be a result of lack of research on magical properties of Blast-Ended Skrewts.
Other Patient Information: Dennis Creevey, while injured and in need of care, will exaggerate all symptoms and aches in order to get exactly as much chocolate as he needs. Chocolate intake must be monitored; he has gained ten pounds since admission a month ago. The rare Blast-Ended Skrewt is likely the cause of his injuries, because the length of the healing process is undocumented for any other creature incidences. It is also the only creature to create all the different symptoms shown by Mr. Creevey. He has been known to take a particular interest in animals and magical creatures, and adamantly refutes claims that the Blast-Ended Skrewt caused his injuries, versus a casual 'no' in response to any other suggestion. Behavioral ticks suggest that he is in denial about how he obtained said injuries. He will be fine with a little more observation and treatment.

Name: Wally Juniper
Age: 32
Prescribed length of stay: 4 weeks
Ward: Magical Bugs
Symptoms upon admission to St. Mungo's: green tinge to neck with hard scaly patches on his skin
Diagnosis: Scrofungulus
Treatments so far: regular weeding on his neck as well as a magical ointment to be applied 3 times daily immediately after weeding.
Progress: The St. Mungo's staff has discovered that the fungus growing out of his neck is delightful when sauteed.
Other Patient Information: Poor Wally's condition became worse quickly after his admission to St. Mungo's. Suddenly fungus started sprouting from the green scaly area on his neck. It started off as a sparse tan fuzz, but rapidly became full out mushrooms. The St. Mungo's staff had increased interest in his case when this occurred. Wally is now starting to doubt the intentions of the staff. He started having niggling doubts when he heard them whispering in the hall about ways to increase the quality of the mushrooms and what spices they thought would enhance the flavor. He's not really sure what else to do though. So he sits and waits.

Name: Gloriana Sprout
Age: 27
Prescribed length of stay: undetermined
Ward: Spell Damage
Symptoms upon admission to St. Mungo's: Patient presented with a word 'written' across her face in what appears to be indelible ink. Patient states the marking showed up overnight and has no memory of its origin. Markings are causing emotional distress for the patient. UPDATED: Words multiplied as the patient remained in the waiting room. Growth of affliction possibly caused by stress. Updated picture of the patient included in chart.
Diagnosis: Altered Snitch Jinx
Treatments so far: Doctors have attempted various potions, counter-jinx, salves, etc. to no avail. Further tests to be performed.
Progress: No progress.
Other Patient Information: While gathering the patients history, some notable details emerged. Patient recently moved in with a roomamte. The two ladies do not get on as Gloriana tends to use the roommates things without asking. The two girls were having a particular nasty spat the evening before the jinx manifested on Gloriana's face. Gloriana had also borrowed her roommate's favorite black dress that same night after the row. It should also be noted that the patient is allergic to nargles, cat dander, and floo powder. Patient has also asked that her roommate be barred from visiting her no matter how long her stay turns out to last.

Name: Gilderoy Lockhart
Age: 43
Prescribed length of stay: as long as necessary
Ward: Janus Thickey
Symptoms upon admission to St. Mungo's: A memory spell backfired on him.
Diagnosis: severe memory loss
Treatments so far: Calming potions to settle his brain functions. A mixture of different memory regaining spells, experimental treatment from healer Strout.
Progress: He has regained bits of his memory, is fond of writing autographs and can write in cursive.
Other Patient Information:
Overall, Gilderoy Lockhart is a cooperative patient, even though he objects to some physical treatments. Every action that leaves him looking less than perfect in his eyes, he objects, leading to multiple incidents where stunning spells were necessary. He cooperates more if he is told the treatment will enhance his physical appearance, especially his smile.
The patient is more trusting towards healers if he is allowed to give an autograph to the healer prior to treatment. It is recommended for all healer to play along. Signing autographs and distributing them has a calming effect on the patient and brightens his mood.

Name: Draco Malfoy
Age: 22
Prescribed length of stay: not tellable - it's up to how fast the patient's recovery will go
Ward: Fourth Floor - Spell Damage
Symptoms upon admission to St. Mungo's: Mr. Malfoy was found in an alley near the Leaky Cauldron by Aurors. He could remember his name but couldn' tell us why he was in the alley. After he was bought to St. Mungo's we also realized that he couldn't remember what year it was and that he believed that he was still 17 and going to Hogwarts. He also said that he had this terrible headache and felt sick.
Diagnosis: We believe that Mr. Malfoy was hit with the Obilivate spell but we also think that the caster of the spell didn't want to obilivate so much of Mr. Malfoy's memories.
Treatments so far: We have shown Mr. Malfoy memories of his friends that had happened in the 5 years he can't remember. We also tried to re-do the Memory Charm with help of Ms. Granger but it wasn't possible. Ms. Granger and Mr. Malfoy also have started therapy lessons, where Ms. Granger goes through the years with Mr. malfoy
Progress: Mr. Malfoy can remember everything up to his 18th birthday after 6 monhts of treamtment
Other Patient Information: At first Mr. Malfoy worked against us and himself by not talking or taking potions we gave him. He also didn’t understand why he was at St. Mungo’s and why he was looking older. After a long talk with his mother and our healers he decided that it would be the best to work with us and since then he’s a very patient patient.
There had been a few arguments – especially when we assigned Ms. Granger as his healer – but after we told him what achievements Ms. Granger had – especially with memory charms –he once again saw that we were right.
He also tries his best to work with us and understands that his recovery may last longer than a year.

Name: John Doe (#2)
Age: presumed 16-20 years of age
Prescribed length of stay: Indefinitely – currently looking for family; patient can be moved to a less quarantined room in 7 days
Ward: Dai Llewellyn Ward for Serious Bites (private room)
Symptoms upon admission to St. Mungo's: Yellow eyes, teeth marks on left side, continued muttering of the name "Allison"
Diagnosis: Werewolf Bite
Treatments so far: Bite was treated with Murtlap Essence; patient was also given a Memory Potion and Truth Serum
Progress: No observable progress
Other Patient Information: The patient arrived at St. Mungo's in a completely catatonic state, but has since begun to speak. At first, he was only muttering the name "Allison" but is now able to answer "yes" or "no" to basic questions regarding his current state. He is unaware of the circumstances regarding his bite, nor does he recall his name or any pertinent information regarding his identity. His wounds seem to be healing at a rapid rate, and all normal tests to help regain his memory have proved useless. As far as any staff can ascertain, this is a simple werewolf bite. The Ministry of Magic has been contacted, so that someone from the Beast Division may come to collect the patient's information.

Name: Harmony Cornelius
Age: 23
Prescribed length of stay: No more than 2 months at most
Ward: Fourth Floor: Spell Damage
Symptoms upon admission to St. Mungo's: A badly thrown Anapneo spell caused not only her airway to be blocked but it sucked most of the air out of her mouth resulting in her current condition.
Diagnosis: The healers are working on reversing the spell damage and eventually her face will return to normal.
Treatments so far: (this could be potions, spells, etc.)
Progress: A little progress has been made in the past two weeks, her face has become a full millimeter fuller than when she arrived.
Other Patient Information: Ms. Cornelius is not the most cooperative patient. Unfortunately it was her brother who tried to use the Anapneo spell on her when she was choking and she bot only believes he did it on purpose she believes the healers are taking their time in healing her. No matter how many times it is explained that if she is healed too fast it may do more damage she is still very agreeableness in personality. When she has visitors is it best to leave her alone for at least a day. Her fmaily has her treatment schedule and agreed to not visit a day before each treatment. Proceed with caution when dealing with this patient.

Name:Molly Weasley
Age:Old enough to not answer
Prescribed length of stay: 5 weeks, please help us.
Ward: Artifact Accidents
Symptoms upon admission to St. Mungo's: it's unknown whether this is a symptom, but patient constantly smudge invisible dirt from nurse's faces, claiming their noses were smudged. Patient exhibited signs of agitation, and could not sit in bed, but kept hopping on one foot and tapping shoulder. Patient for first few days had a constant supply of cookies.
Diagnosis: Mrs. Weasley was shocked by a phellytone which had been bewitched to talk for itself. Unknown where this phellytone was found, but it was most likely found by husband, who works in Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office, and must have brought his work home with him, so he could write a report on it.
Treatments so far: tying down of arms, and gluing seat to chair. Tying ankles down with cement blocks. Potion of calming.
Progress: Unfortunately Mrs Weasley seems to have gotten worse. She now is hopping on both feet alternating between feet. She has also started singing Oh Canada.
Other Patient Information: Mrs Weasley has been very upset with reactions. Unfortunately she cannot stand to be tied down, as she was a mothering personality to begin with. Mrs. Weasley is disturbed at her song choice, as she has never been to Canada. Please try very hard to placate Mrs. Weasley as she is very unhappy that she has to stay here much longer. She has uttered the phrase, "Don't make me call your mother, young man," several times over. Proceed with all caution in regards to patient, as she will not tolerate any sass, again her words. Patient had grown very irritable in last days, and it was discovered that potion of calming had side effect that caused patient to start blowing bubbles from ears. Possible connection to case last year with the immeasurable yeti.

Name: Neville Longbottom
Age: 15
Prescribed length of stay: 2 weeks
Ward: Magical Bugs
Symptoms upon admission to St. Mungo's: Coughing, fever, weakness, fungal spots spreading in the neck region.
Diagnosis: Scrofungulus, mid-to-advanced stage. Highly contagious.
Treatments so far: A smattering of magical salve on the fungulused area, along with Heebie Jeebie's Scrofungu-free potion on the hour every six hours.
Progress: Patient is responding well to treatment although the fungal growth has not ceased to the extent we expect.
Other Patient Information: Patient came in experiencing some weakness, a migraine, and was coughing up lime green colored fluid something horrid. Upon examination it was determined that he had an inflammed throat and the beginnings of an infection setting in his thoracic region. We talked to him about where he'd been the last week or so, and after plenty of mumbling and promises on our behalf not to tell his gran, it's been revealed he'd taken to revelling in the swamps just beside the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts, where our patient is a student. The swamp, of course, is home to scrofolus, that well-known creature that causes scrofungulus, so a diagnosis was easy to reach. Patient so far has been open and willing to do all the treatments we've prescribed, as "telling your gran" happens to be a nice way to make him do things he otherwise feels hesitant to do. Mediwitches and Healers are advised to approach him with care and no open skin/orifices during treatment.

Name: Oakden Ancrum
Age: 54
Prescribed length of stay: 3 days
Ward: Potion and Plant Poisonings
Symptoms upon admission to St. Mungo's: Fever, Chills, Blue coloring to the skin in the extremities.
Diagnosis: Bundimun Secretion poisoning
Treatments so far: Patient was given the antidote upon admission and has since been on prescribed bed rest.
Progress: Color is looking better and the fever is down. A slight rash appeared on his neck and upper chest indicating a possible allergic reaction to the anti-dote.
Other Patient Information: Overall the patients spirits remain high; He has been joking with the staff and other patients. The rash is worrisome, particularly because it led the patient to charming his fingernails extra long. He might have had some permanent scaring on his chest from the scratching had a passing orderly not found him in time. I would recommend the patient submit himself to some allergy testing once this ordeal is over.

With regards to the initial cause of the bundimun secretion poisoning, the patient has been unable to explain how it happened. We went over proper methods for mixing cleaning potions with him, but he insists that he never touches cleaning potions.

Name: Harry Potter
Age: 17
Prescribed length of stay: Indefinite, but at least 3-4 months
Ward: Magical Bugs
Symptoms upon admission to St. Mungo's: Patient complained of tingling sensation throughout various body parts. He said it started a few hours after his duel with He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named-But-Is-Now-Deceased but he didn't think too much of it. However, patient said about 12-24 hours after aforementioned duel, the tingling would be accompanied by actual vanishing of body parts. Patient said at first he could still use those body parts even though they could not be seen, but over time, he is no longer able to use those body parts when they turn invisible.
Diagnosis: Healers are guessing a very advanced case of Vanishing Sickness but expect there could also be a side of Dark Magic that is hindering treatment
Treatments so far: Mandrake Restorative Draught, Skele-Gro Potion, Episkey
Progress: So far, patient seems to be getting worse. First just his hands and legs disappeared but now part of his face disappears for a few hours at a time, which is proving very problematic indeed.
Other Patient Information: Patient is in surprisingly good mood for having parts of his body vanish before his eyes. However, patient does keep trying to take walks down the hall without his legs and thus needs to be watched very carefully. (Redheaded friends of patient have been overheard trying to convince patient to "be up to no good".) So far, no side effects have been witnessed from results of the tried potions or spells. Patient sometimes complains of tiredness, headaches and general "very bored"-ness. The most significant problem thus far is other patients (and visitors!) trying to sneak into patient's room to watch The Boy Who Lived Again disappearing before their eyes. This is causing particular problems for healers who are trying to perform their duties.