The sentiment that “the kids are alright” is comforting, but it does not match what we are seeing in emergency departments.
That's according to a letter from emergency medicine physician and MUHC trauma team leader Joe Nemeth.
Children and adolescents are not arriving at the ER because they are “dramatic," Nemeth writes — they are arriving with anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicidality and severe behavioural crises that need urgent assessment.
