Legal Opinion
In re Rosa M.
New York Supreme Court
Decided November 21, 1991PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Leland DeGrasse, J.
This application by the clinical director of the Manhattan Psychiatric Center (MPC) for an order authorizing the admin*104istration of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to respondent is denied and the petition is dismissed.
Respondent who is 33 years old has been involuntarily hospitalized at MPC since February 6, 1990. She has undergone three courses of ECT since her admission. Dr. Brian Anderson, MFC’s supervising psychiatrist, opines that respondent’s severe mental illness is responsive only to treatment which includes ECT. It is not disputed that respondent…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- In re Westchester County Medical CenterNew York Court of Appeals · 1988
3Cited by3 opinions
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