Notes From The Ward
an insider’s view of mood disorders
It’s Nothing New
July 5th, 2008 by Dennis H. in General, Psychiatry, Society No Comments

At first blush the case of Esmin Green, a Jamaican immigrant who died unattended on the floor of a Brooklyn psychiatric emergency room, is outrageous. She’d been left in a chair in a waiting-room for 24 hours before falling off that chair and dying. It hardly seems possible that a patient requiring hospitalization would have […]