I would question whether or not hospital emergency rooms are equipped to deal with the mentally ill in crisis. I read an article about this in the paper a few months ago. Granted, hospital personnel don't shoot people, but they don't necessarily know how to treat a mental health crisis either. I know personally of one case where a woman in crisis was sent home without intervention, even though her doctor had sent her to the emergency room of a specific hospital with instructions to ask for a specific drug. The physician in charge did not take kindly to a patient "self prescribing". Tsk, tsk. Luckily, nothing untoward happened. But I have to ask myself how often this scenario is repeated not just in the city, but throughout the metro area and beyond. The lack of knowledge in this area, even in the health care professions, is appalling. Barbara Nelson Burnsville Once and future Minneapolitan
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