It is the patient's id number on the Medicare card; usually it's the SSN with a letter or letter and number at the end. This suffix identifies the reason the patient is covereâ¦d by Medicare (over 65, disability, end-stage renal disease, etc.) 45 people found this useful.
insanity. n, pl-ties. 1. (Psychology) relatively permanent disorder of the mind; state or condition of being insane. 2. (Law) law a defect of reason as a result of mental illness, such that a defendant does not know what he or she is doing or that it is wrong.3. utter folly; stupidity.oanthropy. a form of insanity or mental disorder in which the sufferer imagines that he is an animal. â zoanthropic, adj. zoopsia. a form of hallucination in which the sufferer imagines he sees animals.
Insanity is a concept discussed in court to help distinguish guilt from innocence. It's informed by mental health professionals, but the term today is primarily legal, not psychological. There's no insane diagnosis listed in the DSM. There's no nervous breakdown either, but that's another blog. don't think you get the point of this article. The author is trying to address the misuse of the word insanity.. Although you may think that behaving in the way described is crazy, it's not the DEFINITION of insanity. I fear the day that we begin to define personal mental wellness by using business criteria.