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"Attn Hillcrest: Lie down with psychiatric dogs, get up with legal fleas
On KWGS this morning came an announcement that Hillcrest Medical Center is entering into an agreement with the Tulsa Center for Behavioral Health to use TCBH as a “psychiatric emergency center”. OMG, pity the poor patients. The TCBH standard of care for handling a psychiatric emergency is to make the patient believe that it was all his or her fault to begin with, and to get the patient to say the magic words, “I am not a danger to myself or others.” In other words, a magic cure with magical thinking.
Even worse, TCBH has acted in concert with the Tulsa City and County Mental Health Court to force an involuntary commitment through marsupial justice. And probably still does. In this standard of justice, uninvestigated and false hearsay accusations become proven fact, and medical records are falsified. The “witnesses” to alleged dangerous behavior might only come from TCBH and the Community Outreach Psychiatric Emergency Services. Original outside complainants need never appear to be cross-examined, or even to sign sworn statements. One suspects that they never saw a patient that they didn’t want to commit. A good way to dispose of people who can’t be accused of or prosecuted for actual crimes.
For example, on August 6, 2010, Judge of the District Court Theresa Dreiling filed a secret Order Setting Hearing and Directing Pre-Hearing Detention; and Order Releasing Confidential Records in case MH-2010-0404 for patient 237771I. Part of the fill-in-the-blanks Order reads:
“WHEREAS, there is good cause for disclosure of the Respondent’s {involuntary patient} mental health and substance abuse records pursuant to 42 C.F.R. Part 2 (section) 2.64 in only the above-entitled matter and;
WHEREAS, it appears further that the information sought {medical and mental health records} is not available elsewhere and can only be obtained from the detaining and/or treating facility or the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services;”
In other words, the only such information to influence the Judge’s decisions would be limited to TCBH. The fill-in-the-blank nature of this and other TCBH and Mental Health Court forms indicates standard operation procedure. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malfeasance_in_office, and other sources regarding judicial prejudice and favoritism.
There’s just one little problem with that; seven previous years of medical records for that patient from the O.U. Psychiatric Clinic, going back to 2003, according to retained appointment cards. And a “DMHSAS Designation of Treatment Advocate”, dated three days earlier, naming “Dr Beaman OU Psych Dept”. Never mind that the patient told TCBH that he had been taking his medications “religiously” in all that time, or that the patient had no significant history of physical violence going back decades.
In TCBH practice, there are apparently no second or outside opinions. The O.U. Psychiatric Clinic refused to help its patient with a second opinion and certification of pacific behavior, and TCBH refused to allow it, stating that the Clinic’s doctors were not admitted to TCBH practice. This, despite the TCBH “Bill of Rights” which states:
“4. Each individual retains the right of confidential communication with their attorney, personal physician or clergy”, and
“19. Each individual has the right to request the opinion of an outside medical or psychiatric consultant at his or her own expense or a right to an internal consultation upon request at no expense.”
--As supported by Oklahoma State Code Title 43A-1-104, 43A-3-424.B, 43A-4-107a.B, 43A-5-401.C.9, 43A-5-401.D.1, 43A-5-411.B, 43A-5-411.D.1, and 43A-5-412.B.7.
TCBH “mental health professionals” have written, on the least possible data, the worst possible mental health evaluations, and then some. It considers surface appearances very important. For example, getting admitted there while in one’s grubby work clothes on a bad hair day is considered proof one is incapable of “caring for himself”. Never mind the daily baths and clean underwear.
Everything that one says is interpreted in the worst possible light. Nothing that one says that is exculpatory in defense of one’s self will be reported to the Mental Health Court, which denies one even the defense of telling one’s own side of the story. Because the TCBH “mental health professionals” have already written it.
Further, if one objects to one’s indictment with hearsay as proven fact, TCBH “professionals” claim one is “not self aware”. That mental crime rates confinement for up to two months. If you weren’t sick when you went it, you will be. Enough has been written about TCBH that any outside Doctor who commits a patient there has reason to know better, and can be liable for a malpractice suit. "
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