“Bring a few good books,” says Dr. WhiteCoat:
. . . some Georgia patients with psychiatric problems are waiting in the emergency department for up to three days before they can be transferred to receive appropriate care. The psychiatric patients get “housed” in the emergency department until a psychiatric facility is able to take them. In other words, the patients are forced to lay in an ED bed for three days straight until a bed is available in a psychiatric facility. How convenient. How pathetic.
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