Check out just released Primer on Emergency Psychiatry, edited by Dr Tony Thrasher, published by Oxford, chapters on mood disorders and telepsych by me!
Important reminder: if you test positive on a covid home test, you can call NYC’s covid hotline to request paxlovid—w/ *free same-day home delivery*.
Call 212-COVID19 (Dial option 9). No cost regardless of insurance.
Treatment is most effective when started early so don’t wait.
🚨 NEW: NYU Langone's emergency room has been secretly allowing the rich, even those with minor complaints, to jump ahead of everyone else.
Meanwhile, the poor sometimes struggle to be seen.
@sarahkliff and I dug into this two-tiered system of care.
https://t.co/K5U3HKu1A5
VIP patients were a distinct part of my residency at NYU. A nurse once said
"Rich & white go to NYU, poor & brown, Bellevue"
If you read only one NYT article this year let it be this:
https://t.co/bPufu4BA0Y
@uche_blackstock & @EMSwam continue to teach the power of honesty.
This is astonishing, yet not surprising. If it feels like you're far less safe in NYC than ever before, it's not bc shootings are up. It's because the media (fueled by lies & fearmongering by NYC Mayor Eric Adams) is up. Look at this chart. Red line is shootings. Grey is media.
@fosterhood Some mental health shelters partner with local delivery pharmacies for this reason. Assigned caseworker for the client might know what the pharmacy is and be able to have meds delivered. Although definitely not all