{"id":1063,"date":"2016-09-11T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:40:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:40:28","slug":"florida-court-rules-physician-may-be-liable-in-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/11\/florida-court-rules-physician-may-be-liable-in-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Court Rules Physician May Be Liable in Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida’s Supreme Court ruled August 25, 2016 that a physician could be sued for medical malpractice in the case of a patient’s suicide. [Medscape Medical News, 2016-08-26<\/a>] The victim was taking antidepressant psychiatric drugs.\u00a0The Florida Supreme Court ruled that the case should proceed to trial.<\/p>\n

The prescribing doctor,\u00a0Joseph Stephen Chirillo, Jr., M.D.,\u00a0is a Family Physician in Englewood, Florida and was treating the victim for depression.<\/p>\n

Evidence cited was, 1)\u00a0Dr. Chirillo knew that patients who stopped taking Effexor<\/a> abruptly had an increased risk for suicide, and 2) stopping Effexor was “a contributing factor” in the decedent’s suicide.<\/p>\n

Primary Care doctors are often continuing the psychiatric drug bandwagon pioneered by psychiatrists. In fact, it may now be that more people get antidepressants from their family doctor than from a psychiatrist.<\/p>\n

Medscape believes that one in five patients prescribed antidepressants stop taking them without telling their doctor. It has been known for quite some time that the side effects of violence and suicide can occur from abrupt withdrawal as well as from continuing to take these harmful and addictive psychotropic drugs.\u00a0No one should stop taking any psychiatric drug without the advice and assistance of a competent medical doctor.<\/p>\n

For more information about coming off of psychiatric drugs safely, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Side effects (also called “adverse reactions”) are the body’s natural response to having a chemical disrupt its normal functioning.<\/p>\n

One could also say that there are no drug side effects, these adverse reactions are actually the drug’s real effects; some of these effects just happen to be unwanted.\u00a0Read more about how drugs work here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Psychiatry’s theory that a brain\u2013based, chemical imbalance causes mental illness was invented to sell drugs. Misled by all the drug marketing efforts, 100 million people worldwide\u201420 million of them children\u2014are taking psychotropic drugs, convinced they are correcting some physical or chemical imbalance in their body. In reality, they are taking powerful substances so dangerous they can cause hallucinations, psychosis, heart irregularities, diabetes, hostility, aggression, sexual dysfunction and suicide.<\/p>\n

While not everyone on psychotropic drugs commits suicide or uncontrolled acts of violence, the effects of the many other side effects can be horrendous. Not the least of which is the fact that\u00a0the biological drug model (based on bogus mental disorders) is a disease marketing campaign which prevents governments from funding real medical solutions for people experiencing difficulty.\u00a0While the patient may be lulled into a temporary sense of wellness, whatever condition has caused the symptom is still present and often growing worse, as the original condition has not been found and treated.<\/p>\n

Because of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders<\/a> (DSM), psychiatrists and family physicians have deceived millions into thinking that the best answer to life’s many routine problems and challenges lies with the “latest and greatest” psychiatric drug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida’s Supreme Court ruled August 25, 2016 that a physician could be sued for medical malpractice in the case of a patient’s suicide. [Medscape Medical News, 2016-08-26] The victim was taking antidepressant psychiatric drugs.\u00a0The Florida Supreme Court ruled that the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[29,18,19,8,36,21,22],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases","tag-abuse","tag-antidepressant","tag-dsm","tag-justice","tag-side-effects","tag-suicide","tag-violence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-h9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}