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...have tried to be really patient and I will continue to be, though it is also true that my sense of humor and 'flippant' demeanor may at times offend them," Burton writes in an e-mail message. "As Rodney King should have said: 'Can't we all just relax a little...
...irony to the insanity defense. Initially, prosecutors claim the defendant isn't insane, he's accountable for his actions and should be punished. The defendant claims his mind is so ravaged by mental illness he can't be held responsible. Then the roles reverse. Once the defendant, now the patient, has been in a mental institution for a while, the claim is: I'm fine; I've been treated; I'm no longer a danger to society. The government then says no, he's too unstable, too ill. Keep him locked...
...perhaps it is the complete lack of the epic scale that hurts the book as a whole. It would take a particularly patient reader to digest the 29 stories in one sitting but an even more intent reader to manage to surmise the complex connections between the vignettes, which are often too based on moniker relations rather than convergence of plot or metaphor. Often one finds the need for a family tree, a flow chart to keep straight the characters...
...Davis points out in her essay, the insanity defense is tricky, because as it strips the accused of his guilt, it also negates his personhood. The dilemma that follows pits the intellectual capacity of the individual against that of his "healers": Hinckley's doctors are confident their patient has exorcised his demons - but the only person who knows if that's the case for sure is Hinckley himself. And from where he's sitting, the reasons for lying may be a whole lot more compelling than those for telling the truth...
...bend the insurance companies' rules, according to the JAMA report, do it because they disagree with an HMO policy or restriction on care. "It's not difficult to be sympathetic to that impulse," says TIME medical writer Christine Gorman. "Often, doctors are faced with a judgment call: If a patient is going to be sent home to an empty house, with no one to take care of them, a physician may very well feel justified keeping the patient for one more night." And in fact, says Gorman, even doctors who admit to thumbing their noses at HMO guidelines...