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Re: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Fri Mar 12 16:35:39 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: GEN: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Group wants 'alternate courts' for medical malpractice suits" In reply to: Gail Waldby: "Re: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" Next in thread: Robert J. Carpenter, Jr. MD: "Re: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" This case is getting more interesting - "... Rowland told K-S-L NewsRadio in an interview from jail that she had given birth to two other children who were delivered by C-section and says scarring doesn't matter to her. " http://www.localnews8.com/home/646556.html art At Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Gail Waldby wrote: > >Members, this is a difficult case. The civil rights movements brought >rights to the mentally ill to chose treatment, unless declared >incompetent. To be declared incompetent because of mental illness, you >must be a danger to yourself or others. Clearly, she was a danger to >others, her babies, so should have been declared incompetent and >essentially committed to the hospital to have the C-section. This is >not a well-trod legal path, though, which means that to get this through >the courts in time to make a difference, would be difficult. > >The question is, then, whether she was competent until declared >incompetent by the slow moving legal system. Even, then, what will they >do? Of course, the Andrea Yates case showed that being legally >incompetent because of psychotic depression did not keep her from being >legally responsible in the US court system. >Gail Waldby, MD >Huron SD > >Garry E. Siegel, M.D. wrote: >> Boy, what a tough one. >> >> Can a person refuse an operation? Of course! >> >> Was she competent to refuse? >> >> Joe, we need your legal eagle opinion, please. >> >> Garry >> >> -- >> Garry E. Siegel, M.D. >> Private Practice >> Roswell, GA >> -- art fougner, md ich bin ein New Yorker Next message: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: GEN: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Group wants 'alternate courts' for medical malpractice suits" In reply to: Gail Waldby: "Re: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" Next in thread: Robert J. Carpenter, Jr. MD: "Re: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge"

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