Citation

Chan MP, Conacher GN. Can. J. Psychiatry 1994; 39(7): 433-435.

Affiliation

Kingston Psychiatric Hospital, Queen's University, Ontario.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Canadian Psychiatric Association, Publisher SAGE Publications)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

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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