TY - JOUR AU - Fusillo, Thomas F. PY - 2022/07/12 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Mental Illness and Addiction: Lessons from the County Hospital Inpatient Psychiatric Ward JF - International Journal of Medical Students JA - Int J Med Stud VL - 10 IS - 2 SE - Experience DO - 10.5195/ijms.2022.1304 UR - https://ijms.info/IJMS/article/view/1304 SP - 210-211 AB - <p>There is often a stark difference in how people interpret their first exposures to physical illness versus mental illness and addiction medicine. Many times, there is a tendency to sympathize with physical illness but separate ourselves from mental illness and addiction. I have slowly learned to see myself in each of my patients, regardless of diagnosis. In this experience, I describe what it is like to interact with and care for psychiatric patients and how my thoughts on their care changed during my inpatient psychiatric rotation.</p> ER -