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All right, so we are back here with Carrie Mendoza,

who we spoke to in our full episode about, you know, hospital bureaucracy and what it's like a community

mental health versus a teaching hospital or a research hospital and also, you know, you've talked a lot about the

opioid crisis that you lived and worked through and how many similarities are

there. I wonder what should we touch on here because it was a lot from the the conversation that was interesting and we started getting into

The fact that like at your hospital there are some politically polarizing issues you work in I guess like an urban

setting in Chicago is that right to say but gender is not as big of a topic

there whereas like if you're in San Francisco or Los Angeles, I'm sure gender is a huge topic on everyone's mind.

So what are some of the like kind of issues that come up in community mental health that seems a lot more practical and grounded I guess for a

lack of a better term.

Yeah well well again good reminder that I mean emergency medicine you know is is is local obviously you know so like

some places I've worked you know say they're a level one trauma center

well the way that system works you get shuttled you know the

gunshots all of that kind of stuff so you're just the hospitals the ER is sort of

designed that way you're going to see more of that stuff.

Again, one hospital I worked at that I don't eat longer was in served.

One of the catchment area was the gay and trans community.

So we just had more issues.

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