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- From: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: question of legality
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.1659.18016@channel1>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 00:20:12 EST
- Reply-To: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
- Distribution: sci
- Organization: Channel 1 Communications
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- On 12-31-92 DEBBIE MINETT wrote:
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- DM»ranting and raving. She did not want to be calmed down, and she
- DM»specifically said she did not want drugs. The husband told the doctor
- DM»to give his wife the drug to calm her dowm.
- DM»
- DM»The doctor gave her the drugs.
- DM»
- DM»I was wondering if this is legal.
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- It may vary from state to state, but here in MA a physician has
- the legal right to give a "chemical restraint" i.e. an
- involuntarily administered tranquilizing drug, when someone
- represents an acute and immediate danger to h'self or others in
- the doctor's judgment.
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