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June 17, 2008
Maniacs' Rights Movement Is Born
Apparently hospitals will now be required to let deranged patients go berserk until they tire themselves out. Maintaining order for the safety of the other patients would be a violation of maniacs' rights. From Minnesota:
When the emergency room staff at Northfield City Hospital thought an obviously disturbed patient was about to turn violent, they did what many hospitals do in that situation: They called the police.
In this instance, officers used a Taser to shock the man. The patient dropped to the floor, was injected with medications and transferred to the psychiatric unit at another hospital, according to an official report about the February incident.
Now federal and state health officials have cited the Northfield hospital for violating the patient's rights.
Once again we see that anyone who takes money from the government, is at the mercy of the government:
The Minnesota Department of Health, which investigated the incident, cited the hospital for failing to protect the patient's safety. Under federal law, the hospital could lose Medicare funding if the problem isn't corrected.
Staff had of course tried to calm the maniac down using "verbal deescalation," but when he became more and more agitated, they made the mistake of placing the safety of all the normal people in the hospital above the minority privilege that entitles psychos to behave as they please.
Maniacs' rights could be the next big movement, no doubt culminating in a presidential candidate who has no qualifications other than being a maniac.
On a tip from Oiao.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 17, 2008 9:20 AM
Comments
"Verbal deescalation" advocacy in Berkeley tree sitter showdown too:
"Kim Kersh, one of the supporters, said he was a staffer at UC.
'This action is extremely unsafe,' he said. Asked how protesters should be removed, Kersh said, 'By negotiation. Protesters don't want to be in trees.'"
It looks like they might finally be doing something about those idiots who are in the trees:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/17/BAEC11AJ2P.DTL
Posted by: forest at June 17, 2008 9:52 AM
"...a presidential candidate who has no other qualifications other than being a maniac."
Add "nice hair" to maniac and you have Bill Clinton's qualifications.
Posted by: Jimbo at June 17, 2008 10:21 AM
That's the left agenda in a nutshell... endanger the well-being of the majority of normal people in order to accommodate the dangerously insane. This is the essence of hope and change.
Posted by: V the K at June 17, 2008 10:34 AM
Van, where do you find these photos???
Posted by: Pam at June 17, 2008 10:53 AM
Asked how protesters should be removed (from the trees)...
With a longbow.
Posted by: CoderInCrisis at June 17, 2008 11:07 AM
10,000 Maniacs wasnt even that good of a band even when they were semi popular.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 17, 2008 11:22 AM
Posted by: Smoke TNT at June 17, 2008 11:35 AM
Har! Great photo.
Posted by: rightwingprof at June 17, 2008 11:48 AM
You Remember how Al Gore got caught using 230x the electricity of an average American in his Tennessee home (one of several homes), and all his apologists came whining that he was installing efficient lights and solar panels...
... well...
... Last Year, Al Gore used 105 more energy than the year before.
Posted by: V the K at June 17, 2008 3:54 PM
Why it's the moonbat that poses as Dan Quayle!
Posted by: Walter Mondale at June 17, 2008 4:19 PM
sad part is that they are going to come up with some sort of proceedure to handle this. like locking poeple in specially constructed waiting rooms that resemble padded cells with no unbolted furniture.
what i find saddest is that they put the hospital in a position to do something that the police wouildnt risk doing.
Posted by: Artfldgr at June 17, 2008 5:10 PM
takin' it to a whole new level...
Posted by: mega at June 17, 2008 5:54 PM
That is a great photo.
Posted by: Oiao at June 17, 2008 11:11 PM
MANIAC COP rules !!! Greatest movie ever.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 18, 2008 5:48 AM
