Legal Opinion
Woe v. Cuomo
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 22, 1984No. 332, Docket 83-7269PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:
Although some of the mysteries of mental illness have yet to be unravelled, the ability of modern psychiatry to “minister to a mind diseased” 1 has expanded dramatically in recent years. Through the use of psychotropic drugs and new methods of therapy, psychiatrists and other mental health workers can help their patients to lead more productive lives relatively free from the debilitating effects of mental disturbance. Yet the tragic reality is that society’s allocation of its finite resources often prevents the medical profession from bringing its full…
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