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Laura Weiss Roberts, Daryn Reicherter, Steven Adelsheim and Shashank V. Joshi (eds.)Partnerships for Mental Health10.1007/978-3-319-18884-3_88. Laughing at the Rain
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Keywords
Mental healthHomelessSchizophreniaUrban mental healthPovertyHousing firstWrap-around servicesCommunity psychiatryUnderservedPublic mental healthThis is a story of how physicians worked together with a local residential program for homeless and marginally housed people in Palo Alto, California, providing care for people of the streets, the parks, and the shelters.
We had finished the mental health questionnaire, but the man I had interviewed could not get up from the street corner where we sat. His uncontrolled diabetes overwhelmed him. “Gotta eat,” he said. “Can I just sit a while here and eat? Then I’ll be on my way,” his gaunt face asked while his thin fingers fumbled through his bag for a cup-of-soup. His breaths gasped, exhausted by the effort. His eyes surveyed the street then found mine for an answer to his request.
“Please, stay and eat.”
He was sick. He was homeless. It looked like it might start raining.
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