Comments on: Personal liberty vs mental health detention http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/personal-liberty-vs-mental-health.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/personal-liberty-vs-mental-health.html#comment-74385 Anonymous Tue, 01 May 2007 02:23:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/04/personal-liberty-vs-mental-health-detention.html#comment-74385 Sometimes they are executed on patients who want and are requesting psych admission because the ER doctor wants to forstall refusal of admission by the psych hospital. They think they have to take them that way. Sometimes they are executed on patients who want and are requesting psych admission because the ER doctor wants to forstall refusal of admission by the psych hospital. They think they have to take them that way.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/personal-liberty-vs-mental-health.html#comment-74384 Anonymous Tue, 01 May 2007 02:22:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/04/personal-liberty-vs-mental-health-detention.html#comment-74384 Despite the love of "personal liberty" in Texas, that state prohibits people with a whole lists of diagnoses from purchasing firearms. Considering that any psychiatrist worth his lava lamp can diagnose anyone with something, that is a highly questionable prohibition, even if without an effective means of enforcement.<br/><br/>I have practiced psychiatry in a couple of states, and the most workable system is that which allows any liscensed physician to hold someone for up to 72 hours, with some involvement of officialdom for continued confinement after that.<br/><br/>I have a real problem with restricting people's future rights, such as gun ownership, on one of these temporary holds having been executed, as they tend to be executed quite freely and often based on complaints of others which turn out to be factitious. Despite the love of “personal liberty” in Texas, that state prohibits people with a whole lists of diagnoses from purchasing firearms. Considering that any psychiatrist worth his lava lamp can diagnose anyone with something, that is a highly questionable prohibition, even if without an effective means of enforcement.

I have practiced psychiatry in a couple of states, and the most workable system is that which allows any liscensed physician to hold someone for up to 72 hours, with some involvement of officialdom for continued confinement after that.

I have a real problem with restricting people’s future rights, such as gun ownership, on one of these temporary holds having been executed, as they tend to be executed quite freely and often based on complaints of others which turn out to be factitious.

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