I worked psych for many years, and psych pts can be dangerous. However, one tiny blessing of a psych unit is that it is a locked unit, so no one will randomly enter the unit. I heard a podcast that all 3 of the pts were helpless, one intubated, one on Oncology and I don't know about the third. So sad.
If he could even get a bed. Where I used to work, there was a holding room for psych pts. Transitional Unit. They would sometimes be there for 72 hrs without treatment, waiting for discharges on the unit. It's a pretty screwed up system.
My wife and I have been watching the old ER series, and one episode included a mental patient stabbing two of the ER doctors.
I worked psych for many years, and psych pts can be dangerous. However, one tiny blessing of a psych unit is that it is a locked unit, so no one will randomly enter the unit. I heard a podcast that all 3 of the pts were helpless, one intubated, one on Oncology and I don't know about the third. So sad.
In the ER episode, they requested a psych analysis, and were waiting for it when the guy decided doctors were out to get him.
Even if they got it. Probably would have only kept him a couple days, drugged him and shoved him back out the door.
They don’t have the bed space or staff to keep mental patients for as long as a lot of the patients actually need.
And there’s precious few other places to send them.
If he could even get a bed. Where I used to work, there was a holding room for psych pts. Transitional Unit. They would sometimes be there for 72 hrs without treatment, waiting for discharges on the unit. It's a pretty screwed up system.