Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist

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Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist

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. In this lively first-person narrative, Paul R. 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. 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. He describes a profession under siege from the outsideâ€”health insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, government regulators, and even "patients' rights" advocatesâ€”and from the insideâ€”biomedical and academic psychiatrists who have forgotten to care for the patient and have instead become checklist-marking pill-peddlers. While lifting the veil on a crucial area of psychiatry that is as real as it gets, Danger to Self also injects a healthy dose of compassion into the practice of medicine and psychiatry.

Country	USA
Author	Paul Linde
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520944558
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	279
PublicationDate	2010-01-07
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	2010-01-02
Studio	University of California Press

Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist

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