WASHINGTON: More than half of the 47 Arizona hospitals ranked in a recent survey of patient safety got a grade of C, the lowest grade offered in the first year of the national report.
(JERILYN FORSYTHE Cronkite News, June 8, 2012.)
As a psychiatrist, I had been taught to manage serious mental illnesses with a set of assumptions that if articulated would sound something like this: “People with chronic mental illness are permanently disabled. Medicate them and forget them. They are weak and need to be taken care of. They can’t hold down jobs. They have no significant role to play in society. The possibility of them having a meaningful life is slight. Their prognosis is essentially hopeless.”
(Mark Ragins, MD, The Road to Recovery [from "Village Writings"1999])
As a psychiatrist, I had been taught to manage serious mental illnesses with a set of assumptions that if articulated would sound something like this: “People with chronic mental illness are permanently disabled. Medicate them and forget them. They are weak and need to be taken care of. They can’t hold down jobs. They have no significant role to play in society. The possibility of them having a meaningful life is slight. Their prognosis is essentially hopeless.”
(Mark Ragins, MD, The Road to Recovery [from "Village Writings"1999])
(C.K., MSN [nurse practitioner], The Guidance Center, Flagstaff, AZ, April 2012)
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