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This is a problem localized to psychiatric care, general healthcare has obligations and quality controls, and it doesn't fail in the ways you describe. The fact
by microcolonel 9y ago
This is a problem localized to psychiatric care, general healthcare has obligations and quality controls, and it doesn't fail in the ways you describe. The fact that medical practitioners take out enormous malpractice insurance policies proves that there is accountability, at least if you're considered sane enough to press charges.
For psychiatric care specifically, the problem is that the patient has no agency by definition. The patient can not complain about the hospital, because people think he's too crazy to take care of himself.
- phren0logy 9y agoNearly everything you have written is incorrect. It's rare to find a psychiatric hospital, public or private, that's not accredited by JCHO. This group has the same standards for general and psychiatric hospitals about patient rights, and due process for any hands-on or involuntary interventions. Psychiatric patients can, and do, complain. The assumption is that they are making a genuine report until proven otherwise.