Emptying Beds: The Work of an Emergency Psychiatric Unit (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care) (Volume 27)
The work of innercity emergency psychiatric units might best be described as medicine under siege. Emptying Beds is the result of the authors twoyear immersion in one such unit and its work. It is an account of the strategies developed by a staff of psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and other mental health workers to deal with the dilemmas they face every day.
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The work of innercity emergency psychiatric units might best be described as medicine under siege. Emptying Beds is the result of the authors twoyear immersion in one such unit and its work. It is an account of the strategies developed by a staff of psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and other mental health workers to deal with the dilemmas they face every day.
