The default for psychiatric patients: “Send them to the ER”

Here is a standard emergency department situation, played out all across America today. Patient X has schizophrenia.  He takes medication, but only until he feels better.  He is calm when he takes it, but sometimes aggressive and assaultive when out of treatment and off medications. Patient X decides to leave town and drive somewhere else […]Find jobs at  Careers by KevinMD.com.  Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.  Learn more.

Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 15, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/edwin-leap" rel="tag" > Edwin Leap, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Emergency Medicine Psychiatry Source Type: blogs