Doctors and nurses in Australia’s busiest emergency ward say the system is at breaking point amid a surge in mental illness and geriatric patients with nowhere else to go.
On the front line: St Vincent’s emergency department nurse manager Melanie Kelly and Dr Gonzalo Aguirrebarrena, head of the department. Edwina Pickles
It is surprisingly busy for a Monday morning in the emergency department of Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital.
Two police officers, three security guards, several nurses and two doctors are attending to a large man who is thrashing around on a hospital bed as they try to hold him down.
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