Legally Untreatable — A New Category of Long Stay Patient?
1994 ◽
Vol 39
(7)
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pp. 433-435
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The case is presented of a young and violent chronic schizophrenic patient whose symptoms respond to antipsychotic medication but who was recorded, at a time when he was deemed competent, as expressing a wish that he should not be given antipsychotic treatment. Under the present usage of the Ontario Mental Health Act, substitute consent givers are bound by such a “prior competent wish” and this patient must now be considered one of a growing group of “legally untreatable” psychotic patients.
1954 ◽
Vol 71
(1)
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pp. 54
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1988 ◽
Vol 55
(2)
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pp. 93-93
1986 ◽
Vol 40
(3)
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pp. 419-429
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