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>> Managing to prevent a suicidal person from committing suicide is a pretty weak target metric imo. But that is 100% of the job of an emergency room. They ar
by sandworm101 5y ago
>> Managing to prevent a suicidal person from committing suicide is a pretty weak target metric imo.
But that is 100% of the job of an emergency room. They aren't there to save a life. They are there to stabilize a situation, to keep people alive for a few hours/days until they can be triaged and moved on to other facilities. So I would not expect anything more from an ER beyond the simple metric of the person remaining alive through the night. Long term solutions are not their department.
- oneoff786 5y agoThis answer assumes that the ER room is an appropriate place for a suicidal person to go. It is not. So an ER room’s metric mentality is irrelevant.
- sandworm101 5y agoIt is a better place than a bridge. A person about to kill themselves is a person in a medical crisis. When in a crisis an ER is a reasonable choice. So too might be a police station, but an ER is better than many alternatives.
- oneoff786 5y agoThat’s a hell of a strawman. And fallacious reasoning on top of it. ER’s are good for some crises, and suicidal inclinations are a crisis, ergo ER is good for suicidal inclinations? No. That’s not logical.