I recently read an article written from the perspective of an individual who self-injures entitled "Getting It Right: Caring for People Who Self-Harm". The article is written by Alice Tate, and it appeared in the journal Emergency Nurse. In the article, Tate describes the compassionate care she received from the ER department one evening when she needed to have her the cuts on her arms tended to. She compares the stellar jobs of the nurses and doctors that evening to the tre