“Wha’cha watching?” Derek asked as he pulled a plastic chair away from the bare common room table in the locked adult psychiatric ward. A man who I’ll call Mark sat like he had melted into the recliner in the corner of the room. Hardly a muscle tensed, with his belly nudging out from under his […]
Working With the Homeless
In my first week of rotations, I was assigned to work in our inpatient psychiatry unit in San Francisco. The unit works with a huge population of homeless patients. It’s interesting that the many homeless individuals are diagnosed with a mental illness, as well as substance use disorder. In listening to patients and speaking to […]
Starting My First Rotation
I finally started my first rotation, psychiatry here in San Francisco. 3,000 miles across the country, in what is probably Hanover’s polar opposite. It’s surreal to finally be working with patients and applying everything I’ve learned these past two years. Not only is the geography different, but so are the patients. This city is a […]
