I'm 50 now. I remember being in residency complaining about this very same thing on this forum and some guy claiming to an attending from NYC claimed this stuff never happens.
Also where I did residency, it was near Philadelphia. What some of the Philly psychiatrists were doing is if they had a very low functioning patient and annoyed them they'd put them on a casino bus (Atlantic City had free buses going to to the city from NYC and Philly that even gave the person $50 when they stepped off the bus cause they all dropped it in the casino). When you have what amounted to dozens of people all from the same city, all low functioning schizophrenics, all from the same 3 hospitals, all showing up to your doorstep, "they drove me to this bus stop and told me if I got on the bus I'd get $50.....) Our ER had at least a few of these dump jobs in our ER a week. Same attending claimed this was completely fake and no doctor would do such a thing.
Then later it was found and proven the same thing was going on in Vegas (coincidence it as also a casino town) but instead of people being dumped to Vegas, the Vegas system was dumping them to California. California sued Nevada over this. So it's proven, and I confronted him on it, said "attending" never talked about it again. I remember this guy's forum handle but he hasn't been here for years.
Same attending a few times mentioned that residents shouldn't complain. The then forum head (forgot his name) argued this is a residents' forum so if residents weren't allowed to vent out their frustrations here where could they and diplomatically told the guy to shut up.
Las Vegas health officials are accused of shipping psychiatric patients, with a one way ticket, on Greyhound buses to Los Angeles, San Francisco and other California cities.
www.nbclosangeles.com
