Action Item - tell Governor Kaine to put his pen down!

[LEO 229]

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Hawkflyer wrote:

With apologies to Tess and her family, I will take this one.

LEO229 don't misunderstand my comments I am not taking you to the woodshed on this.

Hawk, I can appreciate that.

As I have stated... I witnessed the head docs in action and never saw any abuse of the system.

Furthermore, anyone committed involuntarily will get a lawyer and go before a judge who will be able to decide if the doc is right or wrong.

So we have abuilt in safe guard.

I tired to work things out privately however but there is too much resistance.

 

[ET]

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LEO 229 wrote:

Furthermore, anyone committed involuntarily will get a lawyer and go before a judge who will be able to decide if the doc is right or wrong.

I'm just curious, how does the judge determine if the doctor is wrong? Is it based on testimony of other doctors presented by the alleged crazy person?

 

[Hawkflyer]

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ET wrote:

LEO 229 wrote:

Furthermore, anyone committed involuntarily will get a lawyer and go before a judge who will be able to decide if the doc is right or wrong.

I'm just curious, how does the judge determine if the doctor is wrong?  Is it based on testimony of other doctors presented by the alleged crazy person?

You bet.

And any subsequent clearing of the record is done based on a judge completing the bottom of the same form used to initiate the commitment at a hearing subsequent to any recovery. So in actuality there is a process in place for restitution of rights after treatment.

But, IMHO there is still some room in the process for abuses, and a more well thought out process should be created. It is still my hope that the current executive order is only a stop gap measure until such time as a more thorough analysis yields an "open process" solution.

Regards

 

[Mike]

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I'm closing this thread as obsolete - the Governor has issued a martial law like decree making new law out of whole cloth - feel free toc0omment under the press release.