The assessment of a patient's ability to think can be evaluated by asking the patient:
a. to add three numbers together in his head.
b. to identify the name of the present month.
c. what he would do in the event of a fire.
d. what the last major holiday was.
A
Thinking can be evaluated by asking the patient to perform simple arithmetic functions in his head.
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