Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist Pdf

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2011-03-09
Publisher: University of California Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0520269837
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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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 psy Download Danger to Self for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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