[NU Sports] my new book

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You are correct about "emergency" and "psychiatry" being paired together in the media too often. Our ER has a reminder warning sign in the physician charting room: "Today's patient may be tomorrow's headline."

I'd think you'd be surprised by how often the patients come in. Our psychiatric emergency room in Oakland, CA, has over 10,000 emergency psychiatric patients brought in by ambulance each year. Nationwide, over 10% of emergency room patients are there for emergency psychiatry reasons.

People just tend not to publicize their visits to the psych ER, go figure ;)

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> 

> > Since we are doing this -- coincidentally, my new book came out this week, but 
> certainly would not hold the general interest that yours does. It is a textbook 
> of Emergency Psychiatry: 
> 
> Cogratulations, Jim and Scott. Maybe you will inspire me to work on 
> my novel again, it has sat on the shelf (well, actually in a Word file) 
> for at least two years. I have done some research for it by visiting 
> some of the types of venues the plot uses, though. 
> 
> "Emergency" and "Psychiatry" are not words one often sees paired together, 
> at least not outside of the newspapers, where it seems they are paired 
> together too often. 
> 
> I'm reminded of the story about when Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) met 
> with Queen Victoria, who praised "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and 
> asked the author to be sure to send her a copy of his next book. As the 
> story goes, Her Majesty was not as impressed with that book, a mathematical 
> treatise. 
> 
> (Dodgson later denied that the incident ever happened, but that doesn't 
> make it any less entertaining of a story.) 
> -- 
> Mike Nolan 
> 
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