The man came into the emergency room at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange on a busy evening, in the throes of a full-blown panic attack.
He was delirious and suicidal. Homeless at 60, he had a long history of Parkinson’s disease. But his main issue was the state of his mental health.
He was fortunate to be at St. Joseph.
It meant he didn’t sit in a chair for long hours wrestling with his demons inside a crowded waiting room. He wasn’t put on a gurney and parked in a busy hallway inside the noisy ER, or left to linger in a bed that could be occupied by a patient in need of medical treatment.
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