Have you ever been in the hospital or the emergency department to treat urgent health problems?
I was hospitalized once - I was living and working somewhere remote and got some kind of virus from something I had eaten that just wiped me out. Ironically, the hospital I was taken to was one where I had worked previously, so it was an emergency visit but also a reunion with old friends! How about you?
I'm glad you're ok! Did you have to go to one of the trauma centres? Hopefully you weren't admitted to the psychiatric hospital!
I had a very atypical hospital experience, I think - I arrived on foot, just walked into the emergency room, and because they were busy I ended up showing myself to a room and beginning my own admission process. Luckily it was a physical stay - I think being admitted for psych would be more scary, since the problems and lengths of stay aren't always as discretely identifiable, and a patient might feel more out of control.
Well it's good you knew how to admit yourself. Psychiatric hospitals in the Soviet Union are even scarier. There was political abuse of psychiatry and saw these people as dissidents.
Wow, that is really upsetting. The history of psychiatry is full of these kinds of ethical violations - electroshock therapy, political motivations, gender bias, etc.
or judicial immunity. Providing psychiatric care is regulated by a special law regarding guarantees of citizens' rights.
Due to this fact, it is acknowledged that functions of psychiatry are not limited to identifying and removing biological anomalies that cause "mental illnesses", caring for patients and alleviating their sufferings, but they also apply to the scope of their civil rights. The passage of the law was one of the five conditions for the membership of the All-Union Society of Psychiatrists and Neuropathologists in the World Psychiatric Association. The
Because in those days, the advancement of medicine simply didn't apply to people with bad scalds, so you didn't have skin grafts, you didn't have things like that. But this was a particularly bad scald, and I think I had 20 minutes to live at some point. The incredible thing for me is that whole two years is wiped from my memory, the whole period of being in hospital. The idea of being burnt is in there somewhere, but I have no knowledge of it. I've