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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
You can't be issued a CTO - voluntary or involuntary - if a physician isn't monitoring your case. So reverse engineer this for a second - an absolute discharge does not disclude medical intervention when needed, which means that the discharge is granted provided the patent complies with ongoing medical monitoring where needed.
For the umpteenth time, an AD is not 'patient walks out and disappears into the aether." It's granted with a plan to continue compliance of psychiatric and medical assistance. It's not black and white, especially in high profile cases where that is taken into consideration from the Review Board.
Remember, the Review Board for Li included a lawyer, a psychiatrist and a member of the public. That decision to grant isn't made lightly and is done with absolute diligence to ensure the patient doesn't relapse.
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Quit straw manning. No one thinks he is just dumped on the street with no medical support. Everyone agrees it’s granted with a plan. The disagreement is that the plan is non a Condition of the absolute discharge. If the person does not follow the plan there is to legal recourse under NCR legislation. It’s done. Secondly you have provide no evidence that the plan is a CTO in any cases. But even if a voluntary CTO once the conditions are met it can also be removed.
So let’s be really clear there is no legal requirement for continued monitoring of a patient as a part of an absolute discharge.
Allow me to make the argument you appear to be trying to make. As part of the treatment plan and in getting to the point a psychiatrist will make a recommendation to make an absolute discharge and not being at risk to society treatment plans will be developed and agreed to and the patient will be well supported in the community. Although there isn’t a mandatory legal requirement for continued monitoring these people when healthy choose to be monitored as any rational person would so if things are changing or medication isn’t working or there are other issues it will be caught and adjusted.