I put the trigger icon on because the link I'm giving talks about suicide. But I'm posting it here because I'm furious with the psychiatrist who's quoted. He works at the same clinic my now-former pdoc does, and I have spent many hours in waiting rooms with many of his pissed-off patients. He schedules appointments for 15 minutes and basically runs a factory. My pdoc told me once that at the check-in window of the clinic, out of sight of the patients, the receptionists actually have a board saying "Dr. Burgarino is ____ minutes late," and keep updating it as he gets farther and farther behind. My old T hated him too. I don't know how he gets any business!

I thought this was unconscionable:

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Burgarino, the psychiatrist, says he can understand the friends and family feeling grief. But he feels no remorse. Nor does he think anything could have been handled differently.

"Life is a gift," Burgarino said. "It is fragile. At the end of the day, bad things can happen regardless of the greatest vigilance. Charlie had a very tight safety net. Unfortunately, it could not hold him."

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HOW CAN HE FEEL NO REMORSE?!?!? It took me a solid MONTH to convince my pdoc that it was not his fault that I landed inpatient a couple of years ago, and that he needed to quit second-guessing himself. He would have been devastated if something had happened to me. (His office is on the grounds of the hospital, and on the way over he kept telling me how relieved he was that I was going, and that he should have insisted I go a couple of weeks earlier.) How is it possible to care so little about a human being's life in your care that you feel no remorse?!

Here's the link to the whole
story if anyone's interested. The reporter's sister killed herself years ago and Meg has dedicated herself to writing about mental health.