So he sometimes seems threatening to the intellectual cripples around him, and they want to drug him up for the rest of his life so he can't pursue his life work? Buy him a hut in the middle of the woods then...would probably cost less, and there wouldn't be anyone for him to frighten. His mother should be locked up as far as I'm concerned.
Good to know the Canadians have a decent court system. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Friday, June 6, 2003, 2:25:12 PM, you wrote: LCL> At 06:07 PM 6/6/2003 +0000, Dana Tierney wrote: >>http://cbc.ca/stories/2003/06/06/starson030606 LCL> I got the article again. Here the text of it: LCL> Mentally ill man may refuse treatment, court rules LCL> Last Updated Fri, 06 Jun 2003 13:21:08 LCL> OTTAWA - In a case reminiscent of the Hollywood movie A Beautiful Mind, the LCL> Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a mentally ill physics genius has LCL> the right to refuse treatment for his condition. LCL> In its ruling Friday, the court said that 47-year-old Scott Starson does LCL> not have to take the medication that doctors want to give him. LCL> But the decision does not necessarily affect treatment of other mentally LCL> ill people. LCL> With no formal training, Starson has written for academic journals on LCL> topics such as anti-gravity, the theory of relativity and time measurement. LCL> But he suffers from a condition combining the symptoms of schizophrenia and LCL> manic depression, which causes erratic and sometimes threatening behaviour. LCL> Five years ago, he was admitted to the Centre for Addiction and Mental LCL> Health in Toronto after a court found him not criminally responsible on two LCL> charges of uttering death threats. LCL> Refused treatment LCL> His psychiatrist, Dr. Paul Posner, proposed treating Starson with LCL> anti-psychotic drugs and physical restraints, but Starson has refused LCL> medication, saying it slowed down his thought processes. LCL> A medical review board ruled that Starson was not capable of making a LCL> decision about his medication, but that decision was overturned by the LCL> Ontario Superior Court of Justice in 1999. LCL> The case then went to the Supreme Court of Canada. LCL> In its ruling Friday, the court said there were errors in the way the case LCL> was handled. LCL> Starson is currently in a psychiatric hospital in Ottawa with no prospect LCL> of being released. LCL> His mother, Jeanne Stevens, told CBC NewsWorld on Friday that the decision LCL> effectively ruins her son's life. LCL> She says medication would have taken away his erratic behaviour and allowed LCL> him to work again and live in the community. LCL> "I'm devastated and I truthfully believe that the Supreme Court did not LCL> have sufficient information," she said. "It's the end of his life." LCL> The case has parallels with A Beautiful Mind, in which Russell Crowe plays LCL> John Forbes Nash, a mathematics genius who suffers from schizophrenia. LCL> In 1994, Nash won the Nobel Prize in Economic Science for his earlier work LCL> on game theory. LCL> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
