Author | : Lorna A. Rhodes |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 1995-11-18 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0520203518 |
The work of inner-city emergency psychiatric units might best be described as "medicine under siege." Emptying Beds is the result of the author's two-year 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.