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  • Title: Legally untreatable--a new category of long stay patient?
    Author: Chan MP, Conacher GN.
    Journal: Can J Psychiatry; 1994 Sep; 39(7):433-5. PubMed ID: 7987786.
    Abstract:
    The case is presented of a young and violent chronic schizophrenic patient whose symptoms respond to antipsychotic medication but who was recorded, at a time when he was deemed competent, as expressing a wish that he should not be given antipsychotic treatment. Under the present usage of the Ontario Mental Health Act, substitute consent givers are bound by such a "prior competent wish" and this patient must now be considered one of a growing group of "legally untreatable" psychotic patients.
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