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Psychiatrist held responsible for patient's action   Message List  
Reply | Forward Message #1522 of 1997 |
Here's the link to this recent story in
Toronto's Globe & Mail (you'll have to
copy and paste three times; sorry.
I wanted this post to be easily readable.
Alternatively, you could just type
"psychiatrist charged globe mail"
without the quotes into a google.com
search, and click on the first result):

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/
story/LAC.20061021.PSYCHIATRIST21/
TPStory/TPNational/Ontario/

The subtitle:
Doctor ordered to pay $172,000 jury award
to kin of victim killed by delusional man

The first paragraph:
>
Ontario's highest court has ruled that a
Toronto psychiatrist who felt she could not
admit a delusional man to hospital involuntarily
must pay a $172,000 jury award to the family
of a woman he killed -- his own sister.
<

The third paragraph:
>
The case is thought to be the first in which
a psychiatrist has been held civilly responsible
for a killing committed by a psychotic patient
she had released into the community.
<

Szasz has warned about psychiatrists being held
responsible when a "patient" commits suicide;
now they will be held responsible when a "patient"
commits homicide (fratricide, in this case).
I suppose this is the logical progression of
events when the initial event is the abolition
of personal responsibility.






Sun Oct 22, 2006 11:22 pm

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