Stressed out.
With mental health services shrinking, emergency departments are deluged by patients they were never designed to handle."The safety net for these poor people is unraveling," says Alicia Boccellari of San Francisco General Hospital. Her hospital and several others are confronting the crisis with little help from the government or private insurers.
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