Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.---Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.propublica.org/article/psychia#News #Health #Law #Hospital #MentalHealth #Psychiatry #Medicine

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@ProPublica There is a huge diconnect between medical doctors and psychiatric doctors. From it's inception, modern medicine has seperated the brain from the body, even though the brain controls the body. It's crazy, pun intended! Most doctors are poorly trained. They may have only done a single psych rotation. Let's face reality. It costs money and time to treat mental illness, both of which many hospitals have to consider to the detriment of many.

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