Someone Else's Problem: When Medicine Passes the Burden to Patients and Clinicians

In medicine, a referral can be placed, a consent form signed, a training completed, and a discharge summary sent—while the person who needed help is still left to make the system work.Someone Else's Problem examines what happens when health care passes its unfinished work to patients and clinicians. Through cases involving emergency dispatchers, military sexual trauma, suicide crises, physician sh...