Word: gutheil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prominent teaching institutions have given hospitalized patients this right since the suit that led to the recent decision was filed in April, 1975, Thomas G. Gutheil, acting director of the adult in-patient services at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, said yesterday...
...This represents a fairly predictable extension of legal principles," Gutheil said. Since the medication prescribed alters thinking, it interferes with the patients's legal right to freedom of speech, the court reasoned in its decision...