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Danger to self : on the front line with an ER psychiatrist / / Paul R. Linde



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Autore: Linde Paul R Visualizza persona
Titolo: Danger to self : on the front line with an ER psychiatrist / / Paul R. Linde Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
Disciplina: 616.89/025
Soggetto topico: Psychiatric emergencies
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: The ER doc : who's calling the shots? -- The rookie : Bruno's man down -- The scrambler : how to prevent a murder -- The psychodynamo : learning to listen with a professional ear -- The jailer : if you want to go, you have to stay -- The jury : playing the suicide card -- The clairvoyant : whose life is it anyway? -- The speed cop : talking to Tina -- The witness : trauma underlies the pain -- The judge : playing God from a psychiatric standpoint.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 outside-health insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, government regulators, and even "patients' rights" advocates-and from the inside-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.
Titolo autorizzato: Danger to self  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35986-X
9786612359866
0-520-94455-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826949503321
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