Duration
59:37
Danger to Self: Life on the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist
Paul Linde, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF School of Medicine
What happens behind closed doors in an urban psychiatric ER? What medical, psychiatric and social problems does a front line psychiatrist confront? Linde sheds light on this place, highlighting the history, politics, finance and ethics of society’s current involuntary commitment laws.
This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California, on February 9, 2010.