Suicide Malpractice

Careless Assisted Suicide - A Potential Exception to the Principle of this Blog

2009-06-21T23:41:00.002-04:00

If assisted suicide is unlawful, the tort may be per se (automatic), and intentional, subject to exemplary damages.

About 4% of Patients on Anti-Depressants Will Get Agitated

2009-06-06T21:18:00.001-04:00

It should happen the first day or two. The patient should stop the medication.

Risperidone Reduces Suicidality When Added to Anti-depressants

2009-06-06T21:12:00.001-04:00

One should think of suicidality either as a delusion or as a state of agitation. Both are targets for tranquilizers.

Berkeley Gets a Taste of Its Own Left Wing Medicine from a Freak

2009-05-25T02:42:00.003-04:00

The town should have fought this to the death. Instead they caved in. The compliance program will cost it far more than the settlement. That life was worth less than zero. Not only was it unproductive, it generated massive costs in injuries to others, and disruption of ordinary life. The death resulted in a financial benefit.

Murderer Potential Suicider

2009-04-24T00:40:00.001-04:00

Not a great distance to travel. One wonders if the suspect has serious childhood behavior problems associated with conduct disorder. When such children grow up and get any form of power, the damage they do can be greatly magnified.

Suicider Kills His Family, and Now Fraud Allegations

2009-04-23T23:30:00.000-04:00

Cheap Psychiatric Care is Deadly Psychiatric Care

2009-04-11T22:31:00.001-04:00

This level of shoddiness is coming to the USA, if it is not already here.

Feds Warn Against Suicidality Over Economy

2009-03-30T21:40:00.001-04:00

Would be hilarious if not so sad.

Honor Suicides

2009-03-29T08:58:00.001-04:00

The families of some suiciders can be a problem.

Son of Sylvia Plath Commits Suicide

2009-03-22T21:53:00.002-04:00

One has to note that the mistress of his father killed herself by the same method as Sylvia Plath.

In such a heavily laden family, treatment should be early and aggressive. There is likely a separate suicide tendency. Within a group of people with severe depression, suicide runs true only in some families.

Cult vs Cult - Scientology Accused of Causing Suicide by Having Suicider Stop Anti-depressant

2009-02-24T13:07:00.002-05:00

The connection between the Church and Scientology and the inducement to stop treatment has to be established. Long term treatment is the sole way to prevent suicide.

Yet, the suicider must take responsibility for the suicide. There are many depressed people stopping medication for many reasons. Yet, the chance they commit suicide in any period of time is very small. It is in the same category of chance of picking the winning lottery number of the Powerball. That rarity makes the suicide unforeseeable.

Suicide After Prosecutorial Over-Reaching

2009-02-15T18:14:00.001-05:00

Tough call.

Another Scapegoating Family Makes Money Off Suicide of Alcoholic Son

2009-01-25T17:43:00.003-05:00

They had no credible scientific evidence what the VA hospital did caused the suicide. They were the more proximate cause of the suicide in failing to prevent it in their own basement. If they hired a plaintiff expert, I would appreciate getting the name.

Settlement of these cases encourages more to be filed.

Review of Suicide Malpractice Case in New York

2009-01-25T17:16:00.001-05:00

Hesitation to sign a safety contract is not a reason to restrict a patient, as a standard of care.

Skip Simpson Files a Licensing Complaint and Fails

2009-01-02T00:44:00.003-05:00

One wonders if Dr. Brockway has any legal recourse. He should hire an attorney to review the possibility of a lawsuit against the scapegoating complainant and the scapegoating lawyer, Skip Simpson. This family and lawyer were not satisfied with a settlement. They will not let go. One has to question why they persist. Their loved on killed himself. No one made him. He chose to do so, and was actually relentless in his desire. Is it possible, this family was a factor?

Here is a series of YouTube postings.

The licensing board found no ethical lapse for these vengeful complainants.

AZ Licensing Board Hearing I.

AZ Licensing Board Hearing II .

AZ Licensing Board Hearing III.

AZ Licensing Board Hearing IV.

It is not malpractice to fail to follow a nursing policy. It is malpractice to follow the cookbook approach proposed. Nor is it a lapse of ethics. The nursing policy has no basis in science, logic, nor policy.

If any defendant is being pursued by Skip Simpson, I would appreciate hearing from their attorney.

Novel and Stories Describe the Aftermath of a Father's Suicide

2008-11-29T21:30:00.002-05:00

Scapegoating Mother of Suicider and Overreaching Prosecutor Threaten All Internet Users

2008-11-29T06:57:00.006-05:00

This mother wants jail time for Lori Drew. She cannot accept the fact that her daughter's suicide is most likely due to genetic predisposition, and possibly due to parental behavior. The latter includes failure to monitor and restrict the computer activity of a daughter with psychopathology. The idea that a fictional character can induce a suicide is such a radical one, it requires a very high level of empirical data. The idea that a fictional character could intentionally inflict emotional distress violates the Free Speech Clause. I write a book. A reader, one of a million, acts upon its content after being totally offended. The book is immunized by the First Amendment.

The verdict did not involve the suicide. Instead, it involved a lawyer gotcha. The Terms of Service (TOS) of MySpace were violated by Lori Drew's registering a fictional character. By violating the TOS, Lori Drew committed unauthorized access to MySpace, a violation of a federal law forbidding hacking. Hacking involves figuring out passwords, and clear unauthorized invasion of a computer. It does not involve violation of a private contract, until this case.

The case is pretextual (a false use of the law), both legally and is anti-scientific. As a result, it criminalizes the breach of any TOS, which is the breach of a private contract. This violates the law of contract, as it was for the past 1000 years. The district attorney in Missouri found the act of Lori Drew reprehensible, but not illegal. Thomas O'Brien, the Department of Justice overreaching prosecutor, should be fired. He is wasting massive amounts of tax payer funds to aggrandize himself and to get in the paper, by an unlawful prosecution.

Orin Kerr intends to participate in an appeal of the verdict to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. By that courageous pro bono offer, he is defending all internet users. To use the internet, they are forced to agree to contracts of adhesion. They cannot function without the Internet, but are signing bogus, one sided contracts.

If a torts claim gets filed, I would be interested in the conduct of the family. It is far more likely to have induced the suicide, than the rantings of a fictional character. The sentence, "The world would be better off without you," is not an established cause of suicide. I would also demand a forensic evaluation of the private computers of Thomas O'Brien, the over reaching prosecutor, to see what TOS he violated.

Paxil Failure to Warn of Suicidality Case Dismissed on Statute of Limitations Grounds

2008-11-17T06:31:00.002-05:00

Naturally, if one feels worse on a drug, especially for a while, one stops it, and consults one's doctor.

Naturally, depressed people take anti-depressants. They commit suicide. It means depression causes suicide, not anti-depressants cause suicide. The data show not taking anti-depressants causes suicide, mostly because untreated depression causes suicide. I am interested in the name of the expert who signed the secret certificate of merit if any was required.

The Best Article on Deposition Preparation Ever Written

2008-11-02T22:13:00.003-05:00

Here is another article, more specific to the doctor.

Article on videotaped deposition.

Rummage in this great web site for more deposition articles.

Allergies Increase Risk of Suicide

2008-10-28T21:53:00.002-04:00

This link may explain the increase in suicide seen in the Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and in the autumn in the Southern Hemisphere (their spring).

The tort implication? Defense experts should not only search for the suicider's illegal drug use and failure to adhere to psychiatric treatment, but also failure to adhere to allergy treatments.

Cross Sue the Patient Advocate if Any

2008-10-27T00:54:00.002-04:00

The article is about irresponsible, overzealous patient advocacy to the detriment of patient and family. However, should a patient advocate have caused a patient to be set loose to commit suicide, the defendants should file a cross claim against such irresponsible conduct.

Yet Again, Scapegoat Internet for Suicide

2008-10-12T21:22:00.001-04:00

There is no evidence of any link. The people who have committed suicide had severe depression and chose to end their lives, as an intentional act.

Financial Crisis Causes a Suicide

2008-09-27T21:58:00.001-04:00

So the press says.

Scapegoating Family Gets Rich from Suicide of Son

2008-09-07T23:52:00.001-04:00

The sole consolation is that the city is San Francisco, freak city.

Model Jail Suicide Prevention Protocol at Orange County, CA

2008-09-04T07:43:00.003-04:00

The jail does psychiatric hospital evaluations. Then supervises those who admit to suicidal intent. The rate is low, but is not gone. This shows, even with total restrictions, some suicide will occur, despite the locked conditions. It does not show that the lifetime suicide rate was reduced.