Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist Linde PaulPaperback
Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist Linde PaulPaperback The psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the…
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Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist Linde PaulPaperback
The psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the outland of human experience where they must respond rapidly and decisively in spite of uncertainty and, very often, danger. Linde takes readers behind the scenes at an urban psychiatric emergency room, with all its chaos and pathos, where we witness mental health professionals doing their best to alleviate suffering and repair shattered lives. In this lively first-person narrative, Paul R.
He describes a profession under siege from the outside-health insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, government As he and his colleagues encounter patients who are hallucinating, drunk, catatonic, aggressive, suicidal, high on drugs, paranoid, and physically sick, Linde examines the many ethical, legal, moral, and medical issues that confront today's psychiatric providers.