Download or read book Emptying Beds written by Lorna A. Rhodes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-11-18 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of inner-city emergency psychiatric units might best be described as "medicine under siege." Emptying Beds is the result of the author's two-year immersion in one such unit and its work. It is an account of the strategies developed by a staff of psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and other mental health workers to deal with the dilemmas they face every day.