Dr. Julie Holland, a board certified psychiatrist, worked the weekend at Bellevue Hospital's Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program. Patients are sometimes prisoners, sometimes people recently arrested, sometimes injured people referred to the psych doctors from other hospital departments....

Throughout history people have had altered concepts about the mentally insane and those with mental disorders. During World War II three out of every five beds in the 79 veterans' hospitals were filled with patients suffering from nervous disorders or mental diseases [Ridenour 55]. In recent ye...