tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post3289300936422841662..comments2024-03-18T03:28:36.581-04:00Comments on Shrink Rap: The End of the Stories: Patient BUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-12734679626837893932012-02-18T19:42:48.734-05:002012-02-18T19:42:48.734-05:00Jesse,
Thanks for clarifying . One day, I was lis...Jesse,<br /><br />Thanks for clarifying . One day, I was listening to the louds and the cops came to take me away. They brought me to a hospital. Eventually the louds quieted down a bit. They never really go away 100 per cent but for everyone else's purposes I function pretty well.I know you meant to write clouds but louds is such a fitting word for what I experience so please forgive me.<br />I am not a robot. I just can't read the word verifications anymore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-82324840268984010692012-02-18T14:32:47.745-05:002012-02-18T14:32:47.745-05:00@Anon, I meant that jail, very very unfortunately,...@Anon, I meant that jail, very very unfortunately, is what the police often do when in fact they should take the patient to a hospital. <br /><br />I once was treating a man who one day became belligerent in a store and slammed the door. The owner called the police. When they arrived my patient was lying down in the middle of the street, looking up at the louds. Amazing he hadn't been killed. So where did the police take him? An emergency room? No, to the jail. No Clink, no treatment. A few years ago I saw, from my car, a homeless man who might have been he. <br /><br />It was very sad.jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11077223398907532291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-26573310966090151232012-02-18T14:09:58.996-05:002012-02-18T14:09:58.996-05:00Jesse can you please clarify what you meant when y...Jesse can you please clarify what you meant when you wrote:These vignettes also make clear that the alternative to forced psychiatric treatment in a hospital might often be that the patient is arrested, and care is delivered within the prison system. <br /><br />I cannot tell if you would propose that jail might be an alternative to be looked at in general or if you just mean that it is often the place people end up when the cops don't realize they ought to have taken the person to hospital as was the case with patient C. I know the latter is true and am hoping you don't mean more people who need treatment be taken to jail for it although in some cases the hospital and jail<br />have an awful lot in common, esp when talking forced treatment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-48863614740676661742012-02-17T18:31:03.655-05:002012-02-17T18:31:03.655-05:00Until now I did not realize the extent that Forens...Until now I did not realize the extent that Forensic Psychiatry can be involved in the treatment of a difficult, underserved, and in-need population. It is community psychiatry in purest form. Resources are sorely lacking and a high percentage of patients must be unable to get satisfactory long term treatment, particularly considering that these are people with limited means and chaotic lives.<br /><br />These vignettes also make clear that the alternative to forced psychiatric treatment in a hospital might often be that the patient is arrested, and care is delivered within the prison system. Would that all health care providers were as thoughtful and caring as Clink.jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11077223398907532291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-4712478270971785112012-02-17T17:13:55.523-05:002012-02-17T17:13:55.523-05:00ugh-- scary... what would have clued you in to se...ugh-- scary... what would have clued you in to send him to the er rather than keep him in the "observation room"? would there be signs of a bleed like this before the situation became critical?Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18354453322985313284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-77004214670807658392012-02-17T14:37:08.806-05:002012-02-17T14:37:08.806-05:00Just another day at the office...Just another day at the office...Scott A. Oakmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00970589114389990827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-14004433542603571322012-02-17T11:26:43.237-05:002012-02-17T11:26:43.237-05:00So could his combative behaviour have been the res...So could his combative behaviour have been the result of the intracranial bleed or the intracranial bleed the result of alcohol or detox or was there no relation?Anon Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-59132191363132285402012-02-17T10:59:57.639-05:002012-02-17T10:59:57.639-05:00It took 20 years but I've finally turned you i...It took 20 years but I've finally turned you into a novelist! Perhaps the Waren Wilson influence helped....Dinahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09227988351623862689noreply@blogger.com