Someone mentioned mental illness. I find it amazing that inpatient psych beds are currently about 25% of the number of inpatient psych bed from the 1950’s, while the population has more than doubled. If the % of nuts jobs is the same we “should” be seeing twice the numbers. Instead, they give ‘em meds, the pt straightens up, leaves the facility, shortly says “I don’t need this stuff” and quits taking it. Symptoms return and you wind up with folks sleeping under the bridge, and getting into trouble (or they become politicians

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