“THAT’S NOT HIS ONLY PROBLEM...” CLINICAL TEAMWORK IN A PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY ROOM

摘要: This article is a qualitative study of the social organization clinical work in psychiatric emergency room. The research involved observation room practices and interviews with staff members. Due to responsibility ensuring confidentiality, audio taping was not possible. Observations were recorded by hand, thus, except brief instances, I describe talk rather than reproduce it verbatim. Psychiatry, argue, should be explored as singular profession but team practice occupational groups. These groups are often seen subordinate physicians, this paper will demonstrate these able call upon their specific claims expert knowledge assume authority over patient’s diagnosis treatment. successful pursuit such claim puts position challenge psychiatrists crucial hospital resources beds. groups’ emerges from two sources. first histories systems that initially developed independently cosmopolitan medicine. second political economic environment urban departments which largely treat patients opaque symptoms unclear origin defy easy classification.