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Patient does not use their turn signal. Not out of malice, just out of a lifetime pattern. Switches three lanes on a freeway without indication. The BMW behind them has flashed high beams twice. The patient did not notice. Patient also did not signal when they got their driving license, which was inspected briefly and waved through.
Permanent. The lever exists but is, apparently, decorative.
None. A citation did not adjust the pattern.
Patients with Chronic Turn-Signal Amnesia typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Turn-Signal Amnesia belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.
Under its Latin label Oblivio signalis lateralis, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
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