Re:The Suicide Risk Assessment Is Worse Than Useless
by PaulHoule on Monday January 03, 2022 @12:42PM
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Suicide attempters and suicide completers are different populations.
In any given emergency room, the docs personally know a population of "frequent fliers" who regularly attempt suicide and have other psychiatric emergencies. Thus they don't take suicide attempts seriously at all.
In the rare case of a serious attempter (who's on the track to be a completer) they will send them home, get them a referral to psychological help, they go home and read up on suicide methods, then they complete.
In any given emergency room, the docs personally know a population of "frequent fliers" who regularly attempt suicide and have other psychiatric emergencies. Thus they don't take suicide attempts seriously at all.
In the rare case of a serious attempter (who's on the track to be a completer) they will send them home, get them a referral to psychological help, they go home and read up on suicide methods, then they complete.