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My wife works as a nurse in the Emergency Department of a hospital in Washington state, which has a shortage of mental health hospital beds available for patien
by torpfactory 10y ago
My wife works as a nurse in the Emergency Department of a hospital in Washington state, which has a shortage of mental health hospital beds available for patients. They are forced to board these patients in the Emergency Room for days at a time. The rooms often have no windows and are not set up for long term care. If the patient wasn't crazy before coming in, they will be by the time they leave.
The stories she has make my engineering job look like some kind of kindergrten. Patients trying to eat their own feces, trying to hurt staff members. Just remember techie folks that there is a whole other world out there where very bad and difficult things do happen.
- themartorana 10y agoAnd they're all exacerbated by the broken political machine the US has become. (Not that this is exclusive to the US.) I will never understand how the right wing in this country has become so detached from helping people that actually need it. It's certainly un-Christian, but put that powder-keg aside for a second and it's bad for property values and businesses and communities and tourism and everything that creates more wealth when the least of us aren't cared for.