Lol luxury of quitting? You clearly know nothing about those in medicine. Ask any healthcare worker working in a NYC ER right now. If we had the luxury to quit many of us would have already.

And that being said, do I feel safe walking in the streets of NYC, taking the subway late night after a shift? Absolutely not. But I clearly don’t think the solution is “dumping them in the hospital” as if that’s the only place to deal with social work issues/homelessness. I do agree however the mentally ill should be institutionalized especially if they’re a threat to society but the reality is admitting a psychiatric patient is often not as easy as it sounds. Often times they’re eventually discharged. Better solutions are needed and this is just gonna cause even more chaos in our understaffed ERs right now.

I’ve had my colleagues get assaulted by psych patients in the ER. Watch more doctors and nurses quit because of this.