Citation

Lester D. Crisis Interv. 1970; 2(4): 85-86.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1970, Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service)

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Abstract

The patient nobody wants? Each of us can think of many kinds of patients that bother us and whom we wish would go elsewhere. Two articles have recently appeared on these patients. Goldfarb's (1970) patients that nobody wants are skid row alcoholics while Grant's are the chronic multiproblem patients often found in psychiatric wards. Lipsitt (1970) has described "crocks," patients who make multiple visits to medical clinics and psychiatric clinics have their share of such patients.

Crisis clinics and suicide prevention centers come into contact with many patients that nobody wants. Most often, we can offer these people no more than other agencies and services have done in the past...

Language: en