quality of care can be anywhere from okay to downright horrible. BRING A PAL FOR THIS SCARY ADVENTURE. During the quarantine, I drove a friend with psychosis to a psych-only ER in LA (outpatient only). The waiting area had a big-screen TV playing CNN. Therefore, the TV was replaying—in between commercials for walk-in tubs—video of George Floyd being murdered, over and over and over again for the two hours we were sitting there. My friend is Black. There were several other people in the ER who were also living, breathing human beings of various shades. And the emergency psych clinic’s only
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