Dotta
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Licence revoked? For what? For agreeing to see how the patient goes without their medication for 6 months, and then the patient moves interstate and becomes uncontactable, and never attends for follow-up? If the patient is not involuntarily detained, is not on a Community Treatment Order, has no known history of violence (at that point) against self or others, there is nothing we can do. If we find out which doctor the patient is attending in their new state (through the parents or others), we can contact that clinic and say "this patient is now attending your service, could you please check how he is going and restart his medication if necessary" but the vast majority of the time we have no idea where they are.
Most of our patients with schizophrenia take themselves off their medication anyway, with or without our approval or knowledge, because that is just the nature of their illness. If they are not under legal compulsion to take their meds, what can we do - attend all of their homes and hold them down and shove their medication in their mouth or give them an injection against their will? That is assault for which we can be prosecuted.
Why is this on the GP and not the parents?
Take it as my opinion only as I am not verified here as a medical practitioner.
So...
If it was safe to take him off meds why was he known to Police for mental health incidents as was reported?
Who is really responsible for a MH patient?
A patient himself/herself?
Meaning,
a person who can be oblivious of his/her real condition?
JMO
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