Overcrowding in psychiatric hospitals.

Overcrowding, understaffing and infection in hospitals.

Emergency department overcrowding in Massachusetts: making room in our hospitals.

In the past year, stories of Emergency Department (ED) crowding and ambulance diversion have entered Massachusetts headlines with increasing frequency. Hospitals throughout the state now report record numbers of hours on " diversion status, " unable to accept new ambulance arrivals because they are overwhelmed. When emergency responsiveness is threatened, public confidence in the entire health ...

Do We Need Psychiatric Hospitals?

to follow their predecessors into the rigid acceptance of what was thought to be right. The provision of total community care without any in-patient facilities might eliminate most of the dangers and disadvantages of hospital care. Stigma should be reduced, since people would not 'go away'. Problems would have to be solved in the situation in which they occurred and treatment tried out in reali...

Sexual drive of patients in psychiatric hospitals

We are all indebted to Dr Elizabeth M Bryan for her contributions to our knowledge of the social and psychological effects of twinning and to Dr Manny Lewis for his studies of the need for mourning in relation to stillbirth -their latest joint paper (19 November, p 1327) being no exception. I wonder, however, whether they have sufficiently emphasised the conflict in a mother between mourning fo...

Sexual drive of patients in psychiatric hospitals.

We are all indebted to Dr Elizabeth M Bryan for her contributions to our knowledge of the social and psychological effects of twinning and to Dr Manny Lewis for his studies of the need for mourning in relation to stillbirth -their latest joint paper (19 November, p 1327) being no exception. I wonder, however, whether they have sufficiently emphasised the conflict in a mother between mourning fo...