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No suicide malpractice claim has justification in science, nor in law, nor in public policy.
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- Website to Prevent Suicide
- Suicide Rate High in Latinas
- Most Suiciders Do Not Warn Others
- Irresponsible, Lethal FDA at It Again
- Dr. Wendy Packman, JD, PhD, Pacific Graduate Schoo...
- Byllying Causing Suicide
- Other Armies Than Ours Have High Suicide Rates
- Horrid Cascade of Suicide Contagion in Adolescents
- Bird Flu May Increase Suicide by Bird Farmers and ...
- Shortness at Birth Doubles Risk of Suicide
- "What Keeps You From Killing Yourself?"
- The Suicider Wants Company, The Lawyer Wants a Sca...
- Thank the Supreme Court
- Literature Review of Inpatient Suicide
- Suicide in Primary Care
- Suicidality in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
- Restraint and Seclusion Regulations May Pre-Empt a...
- Bias in Favor of Positive Findings - What Is Unsaid
- Preparation of the Plaintiff Expert Witness
- Skip Simpson Website Frequently Asked Questions Ab...
- This Is Not a Useful Outlet for Survivors
- Useful Outlet for Bereaved Mother
- Uncertain Credibility of This Britney News
- High Suicide Rate Among Indian Teens, Especially G...
- Expectant Father, 17, Hangs Self
- Unqualified Coroner Makes Allegation of Negligence...
- Smoking Is a Risk Factor for Suicidal Ideas
- Army Has Yet to Adopt Effective Air Force Suicide ...
- Prosecutors Seek Fraud Angle in MySpace Suicide Case
- Taunts by Felons, Compounded by Media Harassment C...
- Suicide by Lion
- Criminal Lovers Punish the Wrong People for the Su...
- Britney Spears on a Watch for Suicide
- Literature Review of Hospital Suicides
- Glenn Beck Gets Suicidal
- China: More Awareness of Need for Suicide Prevention
- Jury Favors Doc and Hospital in Suicide Claim; Boy...
- Too Few Suiciders Had Anti-depressants in their Bo...
- Use of Web Widespread
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The Mission of Suicide Malpractice Blog
To end lawsuits for suicide because they contradict the modern, multi-factorial understanding of the causes of suicide, and indirectly hurt many unseen patients. The sole claim for suicide with merit involves assisting the suicide in violation of law.
This site is for defendants and defense lawyers in suicide malpractice suits, to improve defense expert testimony, perhaps to reduce losses in adverse settlements or verdicts.
These settlements and judgments devastate the practice of psychiatry. They cause the needless incarceration of thousands of suicidal patients without proof of benefit. The resulting defensive treatments consume a large fraction of the budget for wasteful treatment and starve proven preventive measures. These lawsuits are also morally wrong. They extort money from the party least influential in the many factors causing the suicide of the victim, the clinician trying to help. If they continue, the most suicidal and neediest patients will be avoided.
Explaining modern, multi-factorial understanding of the causes of suicide in plain language may result in more common sense judgments from jurors. The defendant may also prosecute, with licensing boards and in court, attorneys promulgating "junk science." The frivolous, malpractice lawsuit, because of profound, indirect impact on medical costs and life threatening errors, is another serious ethical lapse.
In systems closed to attorneys (e.g. the military), the rate of suicide may be cut by a large fraction reliably, quickly, at almost no additional expense.
About Me
- Suicide Malpractice
- A psychiatrist runs this site. It gives moral support to the civil defendant's determination to defend clinical care from vicious lawyer predators and their misleading expert collaborators.
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