Saving the ones with mental illness

Outpatient commitment can reduce incidence, duration of hospitalization

By Khushboo Surti
OPINION


In my work at Middlesex Hospital, I have come across a number of gravely disabled mental health patients who are repeatedly admitted on an involuntarily basis — mainly because of treatment noncompliance. We treat them and stabilize them to return back...

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