TRUE, medical care on a psych unit does not really happen. It is also very difficult to get any medications needed for physical illness. A care worker/nurse (I'm not sure which she was) told me that she was not qualified to give me my HRT!!! What will she do if and when she starts taking it, will she be able to give it to herself? Last time my husband was an in-patient it took several days for his essentail heart meds to be sorted out, he could hardly stand up and was told not to behave like that. I said that the problem was his heart and he neede his meds. They did get sorted out then. I may be being very cynical but I sometimes suspect that things only get done properly when there is a risk for which the staff may be culpable. There are however, SOME good psych staff.