@article{ref1,
title="First Night on Call in Emergency Psychiatry",
journal="Journal of general internal medicine",
year="2010",
author="Eichbaum, Quentin",
volume="25",
number="12",
pages="1379-1380",
abstract="It is evening in early winter as I pull into the parking lot of McLean Hospital to begin my first night on call as a medical student in psychiatry. McLean, the country's top psychiatric hospital, is situated on 200 acres of woodlands in a suburb on the outskirts of Boston. Gusts of wind scoop up handfuls of fallen leaves, tossing them against the luminescent sky and creating a glitter of black particles against the yellow-gray light. I step from my rusting Honda onto the ice-glazed tarmac. Crows splotch the barren trees like a Rorschach test--a fitting image, I muse, for a psychiatric institute. This acclaimed institute counts among its alumni the likes of Anne Sexton and Robert Lowell. I cross the parking lot and head towards the brick emergency building.I sweep through the double glass doors of the entrance, through a waiting area filled with commotion, and make my way towards the front desk.The senior resident I have been assigned to work with sits at the desk in pale green scrubs,...<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0884-8734",
doi="10.1007/s11606-010-1455-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-010-1455-1"
}