The person was withdrawn from an anticonvusant and being put on a new one due to a problem with side effects from drug one due to aging. The second drug gave the person side effects of hair loss and other problems which led to a emergency call to go to the hospital which specialized in their care and where the attending doctors had privileges. This person was a neuro surgery candidate and had 2 seizures that evening and contacted the dr on call for her problem and was told to get to the emergency room. The person argued to go to the hospital where her care was possible as the closest has no neuro surgery specialist or eptologist that would know the drugs. Can they be charged by the police for disorderly conduct and a criminal violation?
Update:the person was in a confused state known as the ictal period after a seizure but still having auras of another seizure that could put them in status epilepticus that can lead o death.
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The police may not know that the problem comes from a seizure, so yes. Even if the police figures it out, they may consider it dangerous to let him go and arrest him for his and others' safety.
But once it's sorted out the charges won't hold.
i dont beleive they can be charged because they were doing what they thought was in the patients best interest. they switched her from one drug that was conclusively having bad side effects to a different drugs that also has side effects, yes but they couldnt be certain the side effects of the second drug would actually occure or not in the patient. In their minds I could see the reason of switching off of a drug that IS dangerous to her and being moved to a drug that had a chance of being dangerous. Which option would you choose? probably the latter but you should contact a local law firm and ask them; they would know best! good luck
Sure.
He shouldn't, but he might, especially if he doesn't realize what is going on, or believe it.
Then the person can use the seizure as their defense.
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Yes
the police charge people with whatever they want...
then things sometimes get dropped when they reach the judge and DA, a lawyer is usually needed to do that
if a cop "believes" he is doing his job, he IS
as b.s. as that is
It may be just to draw attention to a potential problem.