Tuesday, October 25, 2011

            Across the country, public hospitals have a hard time providing psychiatric care to the poor and the uninsured. According to the artictle "The Woman Who Died In The Waiting Room" by Jeneen Interlandi, In the waiting room of Brooklyn's largest psychiatic hospital, A patient named Esim Geen fell out of her chair and died nearly an hour before anyone decided to help her. Public hospitals have failed to provide psychiatric care to the poor and uninsured. Instead of locking patient in uncaring institutions they should be accepted into society. I agree with the idea that "Rather than locking them away in cold, uncaring instutions, the thinking went, the mentally ill should be offered a place in society."            The mentally ill are no different from us just because they have a hard time understanding, dosent mean we should keep them aside and not care for them. Mentally ill patient deserves the same amount of attention that regural patient do in a public hospital. We should accept mentally ill people in society and treat them no different especially if they are poor or uninsured.
             I used to live in a hosuse were there was a psychiatric hospital right next door, what i've seen in the house was mentally ill patient being treated horribly, they were left alone when they started to cry and they would be always screaming at the person that would take care them because of the way they were treating them.
            Therefore public hospitals phychiatric institute should care for the mentally ill and not treat them any different, Even if there poor or uninsured mentally ill patient should still be cared for.

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