Well, this article didn’t lead to any answers or any insight for me. The whole unexplained opening of poisoning is cryptic and unhelpful. Does this nurse see th

Well, this article didn’t lead to any answers or any insight for me. The whole unexplained opening of poisoning is cryptic and unhelpful. Does this nurse see the nuclear options as poison or was this doctor trying to give Amit cyanide? Who knows. I’ve spent a month of evenings at Langley-Porter and then again at Zuckerberg, and the staff there didn’t strike me psychzombies. The last thing they wanted to do was to commit to a diagnosis of schizophrenia for my relative. I sat for an hour with the Attending on his outtake and she did everything to assure us that in her expert opinion it wasn’t black and white - drugs were part of the toolset and not The One Answer. What’s wrong isn’t that people are ignorant. They always have been and always will be. Until you’ve been there, you won’t get it. What’s wrong is we have brilliant people who are hamstrung by process. At SFGH it’s “If you aren’t a threat, you’re out” 7 days after the 72 hour lockdown. It’s a factory, because that’s all the runway WE give them. We’re lucky. We’re wealthy enough and there’s enough of us that we can probably make this work. But the other 90% in those wards? They don’t have anybody. So unless WE want to fund that level of intervention/compassion, the factory and pharmacology is the solution.