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Norma Block, Patient Advocate
Telephone:(415) 552-8100
Fax:(415) 552-8109
Diagnostic and Treatment Incompetence at a University Based General Hospital in the Case of Antidepressant, associated Mania
SEC. 97-3-13. False confinement; sending sane person to insane asylum.
Every person or officer who shall maliciously send to or confine in an asylum, mad-house, or other place, any sane person as a lunatic or insane person, knowing such person to be sane, shall be guilty of a felony, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the penitentiary not more than one year, or in the county jail not more than six months.
MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
The medical staff at San Francisco General Hospital should be held to the same moral standards as the Deep South. This patient entered treatment with Mark Sexton on November 20, 1998. On August 11, 1998, he advised her to voluntarily enter San Francisco General Hospital. Without informing her, he filed a 5150 against her. As the result, this patient was falsely imprisoned, tortured, and abused for 23 days without the benefit of a lawyer.This patient had a drug induced manic episode, and the staff confined her as a BAD patient who needed a mood stabilizer. In May 2001, she was referred to both, The Center for Special Problems and California Pacific Medical Center for treatment for trauma, and remains disabled today with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
. This patient has always been held to academic evaluation standards. How many mistakes are permitted, per patient or per professional, to qualify as normal and customary care? How many times are doctors allowed to lie before they are reprimanded? How many doctors are allowed to lie in one civil commitment case, before it becomes a breach of trust?
There are thousands of published articles on BAD which are unanimous that it is distinctive from drug induced manic episodes. The latest diagnostic manual makes this even clearer, by classing anti-depressants within Substance Induced Mood Disorder, and adding a specifier.
Adapted from DSM-IV-TR; manic-like episodes that are clearly caused by somatic antidepressant treatment (e.g., medication, ECT, light therapy) should not count toward a diagnosis of bipolar I disorder.
Adapted from DSM-IV-TR; hypomanic-like episodes that are clearly caused by somatic antidepressant treatment (e.g., medication, ECT, light therapy) should not count toward a diagnosis of bipolar II disorder.
Just because the hospital staff was unaware of this in 1998, does not mean the patient was unaware of it. The entire staff was negligent because they initiated treatment without ever validating the authenticity of their evidence. The patient had keen insight into her condition at all times. Contact this patient Spectrum of Bipolarity
There is a wide spectrum of affective disorders. The concept that they all need a dangerous mood stabilizer is not supported by clinical evidence.
Symptoms that Start when the Anti-Depressant Stops There is apparently widespread ignorance in the medical community about discontinuation syndrome.
Substance Induced Mood Disorder If international symposiums of bipolar experts cannot agree if drug induced mania is part of the spectrum, why should anybody believe the opinion of social welfare doctors who lie in their records?
Generalized Anxiety Disorder Posttraumatic Stress Disorder |
