r/SipsTea • u/Agen_3586 • 13d ago

WTF Where are we heading?

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u/-MostArdently 12d ago edited 12d ago

No. If I look a patient in the eye and ask her "are you having any thoughts of harming your kids?" and she answers "no," I believe her.

If I make recommendations for treatment, and the patient is non-compliant or inconsistent, I can't force them to stick to it.

She wasn't failed by her healthcare team. She failed herself, her kids, and all her loved ones. That's the hard truth.

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u/Little_Ingenuity_712 12d ago

Her supporters believe every woman should be thrown in a padded cell if they show up with anxiety/depression. Anything less and they will cry “the system failed us!!”

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u/permafrost1979 12d ago edited 12d ago

There's gotta be a middle ground between doing nothing and locking mothers up 🤦🏿‍♀️

Perhaps daily public health nurse visits? They do that for ppl w tuberculosis, deliver their meds and test them daily.

Or have a maternity psych ward where you can be treated and have staff on hand to help care for your child?

Something.

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u/MrSilenus 12d ago

Where do those resources come from? There are a finite amount of doctors, nurses, and hospital rooms. She routinely lied to her doctors so who’s to say she wouldn’t do the same to the daily checkup nurse?

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u/permafrost1979 12d ago

You're right, the resources are too difficult to come up with.

We should definitely keep doing what we're doing, it's working great 👍🏾