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.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.