As the United States population has doubled since 1955, the number of inpatient psychiatric beds in U.S. has been cut by nearly 95 percent to just 45,000. It is a wholly inadequate equation when considering that there are currently 10 million U.S. residents with serious mental illness. A new viewpoint in JAMA, written by Dominic Sisti, PhD, Andrea Segal, MS, and Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, of the department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy in the Perelman School ...Wednesday 21 January 2015
Bioethicists Call for Return to Asylums for Long-Term Psychiatric Care
As the United States population has doubled since 1955, the number of inpatient psychiatric beds in U.S. has been cut by nearly 95 percent to just 45,000. It is a wholly inadequate equation when considering that there are currently 10 million U.S. residents with serious mental illness. A new viewpoint in JAMA, written by Dominic Sisti, PhD, Andrea Segal, MS, and Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, of the department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy in the Perelman School ...
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