All posts tagged "Psychiatry"

In the aftermath of Brandon Rodriguez’s 2021 death by suicide at Rikers Island, investigators found a number of serious missteps by jail medical staff, but none resulted in discipline, according to records and interviews. That’s not unusual. Just two Correctional Health Services staffers have been disciplined in the 44 deaths reported in city jails since January 2021, agency officials confirmed to the Daily News. Detainee advocates argue that they’ve seen cases mishandled by Correctional Health Service workers who they feel should have been sanctioned. In Rodriguez’s case, Correctional Health ......

PONTIAC, Mich. — Prosecutor Karen McDonald said she will never forget having to show Madisyn Baldwin's mother the video of how she died at Oxford High School. The 16-year-old's instinct when faced with Ethan Crumbley holding a gun and shooting her classmates was to crouch to the ground in a fetal position and put her hands over her head. He shot her at point blank range. Madisyn was the seventh person the then-15-year-old shot in the hallways at Oxford High School in November 2021. He shot four more after her. Now, it'll be up to an Oakland County Circuit Judge to determine if Crumbley spends ......

PONTIAC, Mich. — A forensic psychiatrist who met with the teen accused of fatally shooting four students at Oxford High School in November 2021 contends he did not meet the criteria for psychosis or other major mental health disorders. Testifying during the final day of a hearing on Friday in Oakland County Circuit Court to determine if it's fair to sentence Ethan Crumbley to life in prison without parole, Dr. Lisa Anacker said after her review of the teen, she found he did not meet the statutory definition of being mentally ill, despite testimony from a previous witness that the shooter was m......

DETROIT — An Oakland County judge is scheduled this week to hear evidence from prosecutors hoping to show the Oxford High School shooter is incapable of being rehabilitated and should be sentenced to life in prison, while the defense team plans to explain circumstances showing he deserves an eventual chance at parole. Oakland County prosecutors notified the court in November that they would be seeking a sentence of life without parole for shooter Ethan Crumbley after he pleaded guilty in October to 24 felonies, including terrorism causing death and four counts of first-degree murder. They plan......

San Diego County's only children's hospital reports that it continues to see elevated numbers of young patients arriving in its emergency department with cannabis poisoning, echoing findings from a new analysis released last week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Natalie Laub, a pediatrician and cannabis researcher at Rady Children's Hospital, said the situation has been most dramatic for children age 5 and younger. "We were seeing about 20 kids per year, with the average age being 3 years old," Laub said. "Then COVID happened, and now we're seeing upwards of 80 to 10......

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri's foremost LGBTQ advocacy group raised alarm on Friday that adults currently receiving transgender medical care will face "egregious" barriers to continued treatment under new emergency rules in Missouri. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican, on Thursday published rules that will apply to all Missourians starting April 27. "Gender-affirming health care will be very challenging to access for transgender adults and transgender youth going forward," said Shira Berkowitz, spokesperson for the Missouri advocacy group PROMO. Bailey had previously only ......