Faced with bottlenecks and backlogs of patients in need of emergency care, doctors say they are unequipped to handle the growing pediatric mental health crisis.
Making some of our most generalist doctors tackle what is probably one of the most difficult fields of medicine (psychiatry) is not a very good idea. Really want specialists for that one, so they’ve spent a few extra years studying up on and treating mental problems specifically.
I went to the ER a few times in my life, never as a patient.
On TV, it always shows it as people who are injured like they stepped on a rake or have a nail in their hand.
But the ones I’ve been to… It’s mostly people having a episode. Major mental breakdown or homeless people freaking out.
You must live in an area with higher than normal mental health issues. I’ve been to ER countless times in my life, both as a patient and not, and it’s mostly just people with cuts, broken bones, something stuck in them, etc. In fact in all my time in the ER, I can’t recall ever having seen someone having a breakdown, or freakout, or w/e you want to call it.
well normally with mental patients you just sedate them massively until they stroke out. especially if they are aggressive, punching, hitting, biting, gouging-- the ones with martial arts training are the worst and they can seriously kill with just a pencil. ER is crazy times nowadays.
