Comments on: Oz: Failed suicide try, sues health service http://overlawyered.com/2007/05/oz-failed-suicide-try-sues-health-service/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=oz-failed-suicide-try-sues-health-service Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 27 May 2012 05:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: markm http://overlawyered.com/2007/05/oz-failed-suicide-try-sues-health-service/comment-page-1/#comment-7219 markm Thu, 10 May 2007 13:14:25 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4889#comment-7219 "claiming ... that he should have been given medication." Could be a valid complaint - except that if he'd been given antidepressants and attempted suicide, no doubt he'd sue claiming that the drug caused him to attempt suicide. “claiming … that he should have been given medication.” Could be a valid complaint – except that if he’d been given antidepressants and attempted suicide, no doubt he’d sue claiming that the drug caused him to attempt suicide.

]]> By: nevins http://overlawyered.com/2007/05/oz-failed-suicide-try-sues-health-service/comment-page-1/#comment-7218 nevins Wed, 09 May 2007 19:52:49 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4889#comment-7218 The health service's plan worked perfectly. Now let's see him successfully commit suicice. Allowing the patient to turn himself into a quad was clearly a deviously briliant plan. The health service’s plan worked perfectly. Now let’s see him successfully commit suicice. Allowing the patient to turn himself into a quad was clearly a deviously briliant plan.

]]> By: Suicidemalpractice.net http://overlawyered.com/2007/05/oz-failed-suicide-try-sues-health-service/comment-page-1/#comment-7217 Suicidemalpractice.net Wed, 09 May 2007 00:51:21 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4889#comment-7217 It takes two to four weeks for anti-depressants to begin to work. It takes two to four months for anti-psychotics to diminish paranoid delusions. The sole proven method of preventing suicide is long term enforced treatment. That is not a standard of care, as it violates the law. In lawyer free zones, such as the military, enforced treatment markedly decreases suicide, murder, and other hard outcomes of mental disorder. <a href="http://afspp.afms.mil/idc/groups/public/documents/webcontent/knowledgejunction.hcst?functionalarea=AFSuicidePreventionPrgm&doctype=foldersearch&parentFolder=ECP&folderName=Essential%20Current%20Policy&searchWords=afspppolecp&TitleOnly=1&sortby=dDocTitle" rel="nofollow">http://afspp.afms.mil/idc/groups/public/documents/webcontent/knowledgejunction.hcst?functionalarea=AFSuicidePreventionPrgm&doctype=foldersearch&parentFolder=ECP&folderName=Essential%20Current%20Policy&searchWords=afspppolecp&TitleOnly=1&sortby=dDocTitle</a> [Click on the British Med Journal site.] It takes two to four weeks for anti-depressants to begin to work. It takes two to four months for anti-psychotics to diminish paranoid delusions.

The sole proven method of preventing suicide is long term enforced treatment. That is not a standard of care, as it violates the law.

In lawyer free zones, such as the military, enforced treatment markedly decreases suicide, murder, and other hard outcomes of mental disorder.

http://afspp.afms.mil/idc/groups/public/documents/webcontent/knowledgejunction.hcst?functionalarea=AFSuicidePreventionPrgm&doctype=foldersearch&parentFolder=ECP&folderName=Essential%20Current%20Policy&searchWords=afspppolecp&TitleOnly=1&sortby=dDocTitle

[Click on the British Med Journal site.]

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