Adequate Nutrition May get You Home: Effect of Caloric/Protein Deficits on the Discharge Destination of Critically Ill Surgical Patients 37 D. Dante Yeh, MD; Eva Fuentes, MD; Sadeq A. Quraishi, MD, MHA, MMScH; Catrina Cropano, MSc; Haytham Kaafarani, MD, MPH; Jarone Lee, MD, MPH; David R. King, MD; Marc DeMoya, MD; Peter Fagenholz, MD; Kathryn Butler, MD; Yuchiao Chang, PhD; and George Velmahos...

In our last issue we noted the Fortieth Annual Report made by the Board of Control to the Lord Chancellor, giving data about mental patients in 1953. Now follows, in quick succession, the Report of the Ministry of Health (Part I) and that of its Chief Medical Officer (Part II) reviewing the whole Health Service. By extracting the relevant information on Cental health we are able to indicate som...

A case study is presented in which an institutionalized, schizophrenic woman refuses the abortion her legal guardian wants her to have. Her psychiatrist considers her to be incapable of responsible parenthood, and her child would probably be placed in permanent foster care. Mahowald considers a legal determination of the woman's competence to be crucial, although she argues that even a legall...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine how the mentally ill are depicted in prime-time television dramas. METHOD Fourteen television dramas that included at least one character with a mental illness, shown in prime-time during a 1-year period, were systematically viewed and analysed. RESULTS Fifteen of the 20 mentally ill characters were depicted as physically violent toward self ...

say "We know what you don't do?but what do you do?" It is a fair question, for in recent years family caseworkers have been provokingly reticent about their activities and their place among the social services of the Welfare State. Is there, in fact, any role for a family casework agency, or are caseworkers making a place for themselves rather than admitting that they are redundant? That some o...

The insanity defense is a legal construct that excuses certain mentally ill defendants from legal responsibility for criminal behavior. This practice guideline has delineated the forensic psychiatric evaluation of defendants raising the insanity defense. The document describes acceptable forensic psychiatric practices. Where possible, standards of practice and ethical guidelines have been speci...

INTRODUCTION Section 5(ii) of The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (HMA) states that under certain circumstances, mental illness is accepted as a ground for the annulment of marriage, while Section 13(1) (iii) states that mental illness is a ground for divorce. There is little data on how this provision is used and applied in matrimonial petitions. This paper assesses judicial practices in divorce case...

'The effect of this organisation is that money is extracted from the weak, the credulous and the mentally ill, and the techniques used are potentially, and in many cases, positively, harmful to the mental health of the community.' With these words, Peter Hordern (Cons. M.P. for Horsham) urged the Minister of Health, Kenneth Robinson, to hold an inquiry into the practice known as Scientology in ...

The "hard core" group of chronically hospitalized mental patients still fill most hospital beds, and are not participants in the current upsurge in discharge rates. Target areas for rehabilitation of this population are suggested on the basis of a review of institutional studies within an interactional framework. A review of institutional treatment research suggests that "milieu" and "social le...