2004-01-08
Down time: Took off from work the past couple of days | Nursing a cold but really just trying to deal with a general angst. Can't say that the place is terribly inspiring | So much of the work is ongoing, repetivite and doesn't often have a clear outcome | Phone calls to bureaucrats, meetings to negotiate getting things accomplished for others | Haggiling with adminstrators and clinicians to see to it that stuff that's supposed to get done actually gets accomplished |
I work as a patients' rights advocate at a large state-run psychiatric facility on the Eastern Seaboard of the USA. Some -most, actually- of the clients are here against their will; either sent from the courts or corrections or from some other smaller facility | Others have been committed by a probate court. A few are here "voluntariliy" though the definition of this is elusive for if a voluntary patient wants to leave he or she indicates their intent, and that can still be contested with a trip to court where, if the clinical folks convince the judge, they either get committed or the person "volunteers" to stay longer | You can start reading more about this stuff at will's mental health pages | ¶ 12:32
I work as a patients' rights advocate at a large state-run psychiatric facility on the Eastern Seaboard of the USA. Some -most, actually- of the clients are here against their will; either sent from the courts or corrections or from some other smaller facility | Others have been committed by a probate court. A few are here "voluntariliy" though the definition of this is elusive for if a voluntary patient wants to leave he or she indicates their intent, and that can still be contested with a trip to court where, if the clinical folks convince the judge, they either get committed or the person "volunteers" to stay longer | You can start reading more about this stuff at will's mental health pages | ¶ 12:32
