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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

Bipolar Bandit

If they don’t qualify for inpatient, I can refer them to outpatient treatment programs or give them self-help material. They might have offered choices, set limits, provided empathy to no avail. My job is to make this happen. I can authorize involuntary transfers of patients to hospitals. What do you mean by “mobile”?