Booknotes+ Mark Vonnegut, "The Heart of Caring"
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Psychiatry
When i know forty years ago, when i had a kid who was cutting themselves or doing something like that. And i would call up the head of psychiatryat mess general and say, he my please come. I want you to see this kid. Usually, and with other referals, they were done not through an electronic medical record. It was a phone call from one doctor to another. What's going on? That kid was usually seen within a week and given good care. You have to be a psychiatrically, so sick that you try to kill yourself, you go to an eme gency room. They declare you're not a danger to yourself and others and send you
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