Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist by Linde, Paul
Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist by Linde, Paul

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

The psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into...
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Author: Paul Linde
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Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist by Linde, Paul

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

BD$62.45
Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist by Linde, Paul

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

BD$62.45
Author: Paul Linde
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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 psychiatrists who have forgotten to care for the patient and have instead become checklist-marking pill-peddlers. While lifting the veil on a crucial area of psychiatry that is as real as it gets, Danger to Self also injects a healthy dose of compassion into the practice of medicine and psychiatry.

Author: Paul Linde
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 01/07/2010
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.22w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780520269835

About the Author
Paul R. Linde, MD, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and the author of Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa.
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