I have similar conversations with student nurses when they come to psychiatry about how to (informally) calculate risk when making decisions like how close to stand to someone or whether or not you can go into their room alone.
First of all, we’ve got a bunch of highly unpredictable people, but 7-11 often has a similar quantity, and at least on the psych unit you can be around 99.9% that they don’t have a gun or even a knife. They might not be kittens, but you don’t have to treat them like rabid bears, either. Well. Most of them anyway, and I’d tell you if we had one at that time.
Also statistically speaking people with mental illness are much more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators, but that’s a whole different debate.
I have similar conversations with student nurses when they come to psychiatry about how to (informally) calculate risk when making decisions like how close to stand to someone or whether or not you can go into their room alone.
First of all, we’ve got a bunch of highly unpredictable people, but 7-11 often has a similar quantity, and at least on the psych unit you can be around 99.9% that they don’t have a gun or even a knife. They might not be kittens, but you don’t have to treat them like rabid bears, either. Well. Most of them anyway, and I’d tell you if we had one at that time.
Also statistically speaking people with mental illness are much more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators, but that’s a whole different debate.
The slow motion punches always amuse me.