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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

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Administrative pressure to reduce hospital emergency lengths of stay can result in premature discharges. Approximately half of people with schizophrenia or bipolar lack awareness of their illness, called anosognosia. The states primarily funded these hospitals through taxes until the Medicaid program was created in 1965.