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- From: eclark@gauss.math.usf.edu. (Edwin Clark)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Peter Breggin, _Toxic Psychiatry_ (Q)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.121004.939@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 12:10:04 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.155632.21024@athena.mit.edu> <24417@alice.att.com> <1992Dec17.001057.10783@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec17.001057.10783@genie.slhs.udel.edu> nancy@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Nancy Lebovitz) writes:
- >In article <24417@alice.att.com> ark@alice.UUCP () writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec15.155632.21024@athena.mit.edu> jgnassi@athena.mit.edu (John Angelo Gnassi) writes:
- >>
- >>> If a patient with a psychiatric disorder is lucid, evidences
- >>> understanding of the situation, is not in immediate danger of harming
- >>> self or others, they can walk out AMA - Against Medical Advice.
- >>
- >>Does anyone else remember the article written by the journalist who
- >>walked into a hospital one day, claiming to hear voices, with the
- >>intent of seeing what happened and writing about it?
- >>
- >>He told the doctor(s) that he heard voices in his head saying things
- >>like `Thud.' in a normal tone of voice. Any other questions he answered
- >>truthfully. After a while he said the voices had stopped. At no time
- >>did he do anything to suggest that he might harm himself or others.
- >>
- >>What he found:
- >>
- >> Even though he continued to behave as a journalist,
- >> and would have admitted what he was doing had anyone
- >> asked, no one did. They did make notations in his
- >> records, though, saying things like `Patient engages
- >> in writing behavior.'
- >>
- >> He had a very hard time getting out. Indeed, if I remember
- >> correctly, the only reason he was let out at all was that
- >> before going in, he made sure several other people knew
- >> what he was up to so that he could bring them in to testify
- >> on his behalf.
- >>
- >>This may, of course, be an isolated incident. Can someone point me at
- >>the article?
- >
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- Did the journalist "patient" have private insurance--if not
- who was picking up the tab? I have heard stories of cases in
- which patients miraculously recovered when their insurance ran
- out.
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- W. Edwin Clark
- Mathematics Department
- University of South Florida
- Tampa, FL 33620-5700
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