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...should also be pointed out that in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in practice, it takes two physicians to commit a person to a mental hospital for a ten day period of observation--one to fill out the Section 79 (Request for Observation) paper and the other to accept it. A physician may not request observation of a person at a hospital where he is employed and this provides a double check for the person committed for observation. While in practice most Section 79 papers are accepted by the admitting physician this is by no means always true...
Finally, major mental illness is a painful and difficult problem for the patient and for the community. A person in the midst of a psychosis is not really (as the article and Dr. Szaz imply) free to choose whether or not to live or die for he is often impelled by totally unrealistic inner forces which are subject to reversal by both psychotherapy and chemotherapy. I don't feel a man should be permitted to kill himself because a voice which he hears in his head one week tells him this is his duty. I would not want...
Although some incoming freshmen will still be assigned economy doubles (small rooms originally designed for one person), none will be asked to live at home and commute to class...
...what if a complicated legal fight is necessary to secure satisfaction, and its cost promises to be far more than the amount recovered? Sometimes in such cases, the only answer is a legal phenomenon called a class action-that is, a suit filed by the person wronged on behalf of himself and unnamed hundreds or thousands of others who can be classified with him as similarly wronged...
...reply to a request by Leonard Boudin, Spock's attorney, for more particulars, assistant U.S. attorney John Wall told the court: "All Mr. Boudin has to do is go to the Bureau of the Census and ask for the name of every male person between 18 and 35, and he'll know who's been counselled" to break Selective Service laws...