How a psychiatrist rebuilt trust with a patient in crisis
An excerpt from Unlike the Rest: A Doctor’s Story © 2024. Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved.
I was trained in my first month of residency, during onboarding, to always position myself closest to the door when interviewing a patient, as situations can escalate quickly and become potentially dangerous. “If a patient stands, you stand,” my preceptor said to me during safety training. Her words came back to …
