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By Lorna A. Rhodes

The paintings of inner-city emergency psychiatric devices may possibly most sensible be defined as "medicine lower than siege." Emptying Beds is the results of the author's two-year immersion in a single such unit and its paintings. it truly is an account of the options constructed via a employees of psychiatrists, social staff, nurses, and different psychological medical examiners to house the dilemmas they face each day.

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