I think an attending always has to hear each case and approve, but I left before I found out what happened for sure. I know that the ER tends to give a lot of "band-aid" medications, but if I were her I'd have at the very least offered some more information on PTSD and some encouragement to seek therapy. I know my city has a few places that trauma survivors can go for free even!

On the inpatient unit we always try to set up follow-up for people to get therapy or whatever they need... I think the ER could have done better and that the patient could have really benefited from something more.