Posted by alexandra_k on June 28, 2005, at 21:05:27
In reply to Re: grr » alexandra_k, posted by Damos on June 28, 2005, at 20:24:32
> I didn't see victim here.
Mmm. I think I do. I think... That I can see it wasn't personal. That it isn't that I'm so very repulsive. It is just that people feel out of their depth. And the sad truth is that they are too underfunded to have clinician's volountarily take on harder cases. Just leads to burnout.
I can see that he spent the majority of his time on the wards. And that the time he did spend in the community he was supposed to take the emergency referrals for our sub-region. That that is why he kept his phone and pager. Because crisis assessment would say they were bringing someone in for assessment. Because the hospital would be calling him about how many beds they did not have etc.
Because the majority of crisis assessments really are crisis assessments. People who have been getting progressively paranoid over the last few weeks and then their family is freaking out because they are starting to huddle in the corner with a knife or whatever...
And then there is me.
And he would deal with that stuff before I arrived and after I left. With no time in between. And even once he did take my comments about the phone / pager seriously I noticed that he didn't actually turn them off he gave them to his receptionist. And sometimes she would (looking worried) bang on the door to give him a note.
So... He really was busy.
And I guess it is just a sh*t of a situation all round.
And there it is.
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