A physician’s involuntary psychiatric hold, from inside

I was never suicidal.

I said the words because I believed I had no other way out.

By then I was restrained, masked, surrounded, and being moved through a medical system I understood too well. I am a physician. I have spent my career in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. I have managed patients on ventilators, spoken with families at the edge of death, treated sleep and breathing disorders, and taught …

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A physician’s involuntary psychiatric hold, from inside