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“From the earliest days of mental health legislation in New Zealand, around 1880, there has been a view that there are occasions when people with mental disorder (however that might be defined) would need treatment without their consent. However, the ‘proper’ extent of the use of detention and compulsory treatment remains controversial.”
We make important decisions every day and we often rely on experts to help us decide. But, says economist Noreena Hertz, relying too much on experts can be limiting and even dangerous. She calls for us to start democratising expertise to listen not only to surgeons and CEOs, but also to shop staff.
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Katherine Raue is a fellow blogwriter, she is a friend. Currently, she is in my opinion being ‘improperly detained’ in Rangipapa, an inpatient service that caters mainly for the needs of women in treatment programmes aimed at rehabilitation.
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Katherine Raue is a fellow blogwriter, her website Transparency in New Zealand (TiNZ) is a pandora’s box of “serious allegations coupled with indisputable evidence of serious and systemic incompetence and
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When film critic Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw to cancer, he lost the ability to eat and speak. But he did not lose his voice. In a moving talk, Ebert and his wife, Chaz, with friends Dean Ornish and John Hunter, come together to tell his remarkable story.
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