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Simone D.
Simone D. is a pseudonym for a psychiatric patient in the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York City, who in 2007 won a court ruling which set aside a two-year-old court order to give her electroshock treatment against her will. She spoke Spanish, but she was not transferred to a unit/facility that had Spanish-speaking clinicians. Her attorneys were Dennis Feld and Kim Darrow.
Article summary
Simone D. is a pseudonym for a psychiatric patient in the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York City, who in 2007 won a court ruling which set aside a two-year-old court order to give her electroshock treatment against her will. She spoke Spanish, but she was not transferred to a unit/facility that had Spanish-speaking clinicians. Her attorneys were Dennis Feld and Kim Darrow.
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- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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