If they aren’t responsible for their actions they should be considered legally incompetent by the state and their guardian should have to pay damages.
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lath@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI would think it’s usually by family members of the patients, but to be a patient in the hospital, your body is no longer obeying regular functions, so the unexpected becomes the norm.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
lath@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s silly. If professionals can’t subdue a person completely out of control, you can’t expect a layman to do the same.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
There are a lot of legal restrictions on how the hospital is allowed respond to violent patients
lath@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Call ICE. They have zero legal restrictions.
Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Its usually patients, they often don’t have full capacity (either altered for organic underlying reasons, or substance use, etc…) and usually for that reason it goes unreported.