Interesting story here
So local law enforcement here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast wants to get a law passed authorizing all sorts of non-physicians to institute a 72 hour medical hold on any person that they “think” is mentally ill.
The folks they would propose giving this authority to would include cops, park rangers, border patrol agents, and social workers. I’m not sure if they will also include the guy who waits on me at the Taco Bell drive thru, but I don’t see why not. He’s got about as much medical education and qualification as a lot of the aforementioned folks, I reckon.
No need to get the doctors involved any longer! Yippeeee!!!!
I guess these morons are under the false assumption that all a doctor does when he institutes a 72 hour hold is lock the person in a room and “observe” them. Continue reading ‘No Shortage of Stupid Ideas Out There’
