(CN) - A hospital cannot bar the service dog belonging to its 70-year-old psych patient without showing the dog failed an individualized assessment, a federal judge ruled. Abigayil Tamara, 70, says ...
As usual, my wife Mary spotted the warning signs, knew what they meant and knew what needed to be done. My nightmares had suddenly returned after a long period without any. I’ve been waking up with ...
Content warning: Mentions of abuse, suicide, and self-harm; descriptions of depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric conditions. On Monday, Sept. 25, I presented myself to the emergency room for ...
WASHINGTON — Long waits for insurance authorization allowing psychiatric patients to be admitted to the hospital from the emergency department waste thousands of hours of physician time, given that ...
Mia, an 18-year-old inpatient on a psychiatric ward, likes to pull pranks on her nurses. But it wasn’t until her most recent admission to a mental health facility in Cornwall that she started turning ...
Patient-initiated brief admission as a complement to outpatient psychiatric care is appreciated by nurses and patients, and can reduce levels of anxiety in people with emotional instability and ...
Although other wards and departments in the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) continually enjoy renovations, its psychiatric ward has become so dilapidated over the years that it is no ...