Comments on: When is it nobody’s fault? https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/01/when-is-it-nobodys-fault/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 23 May 2008 11:24:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Deoxy https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/01/when-is-it-nobodys-fault/comment-page-1/#comment-14789 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:26:24 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/index.php/2008/01/when-is-it-nobodys-fault/#comment-14789 “By seeking to hold someone responsible for the unfortunate events like those that occurred with Ms. Ferrell, our legal system drives the health care industry to spend inordinate amounts of monies to reduce patient risk to as close as zero as possible.”

One side effect of this is that there is less money with which to actually treat people. Fewer people may indeed die IN the institutions because of such things, but there will be fewer people treated because of it as well, and MORE will die outside the institution.

This is not a net gain in terms of outcomes.

]]> By: nevins https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/01/when-is-it-nobodys-fault/comment-page-1/#comment-14788 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:44:14 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/index.php/2008/01/when-is-it-nobodys-fault/#comment-14788 If she didn’t want to commit suicide I suppose she would not have. True, many people unsuccessful at suicide later are grateful at the result. But does that justify us taking away their liberty of self determination?
If the courts properly relieved her of her personal liberty to self detmination by ordering an unwanted admission, then by all means she should be subject to zero privacy and continuous observation; and if she so much as flinches wrong should be restrained by whatever means necessary.
Unless this is not what we want as a society, but to protect even the legally committed with some privacy and autonomy; then however we should expect a few to kill themselves. Liberty costs.

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