Years ago, I worked the night shift at my local hospital, a level 1 trauma center, small, but efficient. We had some patients (homeless) that returned to the med/surge floor at least once a month or every other month, we called them our 'frequent flyers' because we knew we would see them again about 4 to 6 weeks later in the same condition or worse. They were very similar to these folks here. They talked to and yelled at their invisible "visitors/demons" until sedated. we would get them cleaned up, and stabilized after a few days, and then unfortunately, we were forced to send them right back out into the streets until they eventually didn't make it to the hospital on time. I was in a much smaller city than Hollywood, so I cannot even begin to imagine what it would have been like to have worked the night shift in a Hollywood hospital knowing what we know now.
Years ago, I worked the night shift at my local hospital, a level 1 trauma center, small, but efficient. We had some patients (homeless) that returned to the med/surge floor at least once a month or every other month, we called them our 'frequent flyers' because we knew we would see them again about 4 to 6 weeks later in the same condition or worse. They were very similar to these folks here. They talked to and yelled at their invisible "visitors/demons" until sedated. we would get them cleaned up, and stabilized after a few days, and then unfortunately, we were forced to send them right back out into the streets until they eventually didn't make it to the hospital on time. I was in a much smaller city than Hollywood, so I cannot even begin to imagine what it would have been like to have worked the night shift in a Hollywood hospital knowing what we know now.