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The front lines of San Francisco's mental health crisis

San Francisco City Insider

English - October 05, 2018 05:24 - 24 minutes - ★★★★★ - 72 ratings
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Paul Linde, a doctor who worked in the psychiatric emergency room of San Francisco General Hospital for 24 years. He talks about why the city's mental health system is so broken and what it would take to fix it - namely, far more mental health treatment beds so there's somewhere for mentally ill homeless people to go besides the E.R. or our sidewalks.
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Paul Linde, a doctor who worked in the psychiatric emergency room of San Francisco General Hospital for 24 years. He talks about why the city's mental health system is so broken and what it would take to fix it - namely, far more mental health treatment beds so there's somewhere for mentally ill homeless people to go besides the E.R. or our sidewalks.

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