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Every time a story about police hurting or killing someone with a mental health condition makes the news, medical professionals come out of the woodwork to talk about how they would *never* do something like that, and it drives me up a wall.
oh look it’s medical staff doing exactly the same thing police do sometimes with no real consequences https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/death-of-improperly-restrained-patient-ruled-homicide-in-south-carolina.html">https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/d...
And again. https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-whiting-choking-death-20190130-k5ybl6qt3nd2jmre2vn46464yi-story.html">https://www.courant.com/news/conn...
And again. https://www.texastribune.org/2016/08/02/texas-mental-hospital-forceful-restraint-leads-dea/">https://www.texastribune.org/2016/08/0...
Turns out, when you’re doing restraint and seclusion, medical and nursing degrees don’t really impact whether someone dies or not. Neither do good intentions.
I watched prone restraint happen when I was in the hospital. An agitated woman on my ward got taken to the ground and her face hit the tile. There was a lot of blood.
It’s brutal no matter who does it.
It’s brutal no matter who does it.
Early in my stay but after watching a woman get her face broken, I politely complained to staff. We were supposed to get 30 minutes outside.
“The patient is getting agitated...”
Shut me up pretty quickly. I’m not stupid. I recognize when I’m being threatened.
“The patient is getting agitated...”
Shut me up pretty quickly. I’m not stupid. I recognize when I’m being threatened.
Restraint is restraint is restraint is restraint.
It doesn’t actually matter who’s doing it or what the intentions are.
It doesn’t actually matter who’s doing it or what the intentions are.
