Jim Malone (Cleveland Clinic Attorney)
Appearances
48 Hours
Stalking Shadows
just plain old-fashioned evil. And there is scarcely anything that can be done by mental health or anybody else to prevent evil from having its way. Penny Chang was gunned down by this former patient, Scott Struthers.
48 Hours
Stalking Shadows
I don't think they believed there was anything to worry about. But my word, what do you have to hear to be worried?
48 Hours
Stalking Shadows
In the bottom of your heart, Dr. Chang, don't you know that you should have called for help, that a call to the police would have stopped all of this?
48 Hours
Stalking Shadows
No. I don't believe they're responsible for the death of their daughter. But what I say is this. If that phone call had been placed, the Shaker Heights Police Department would have had this man off the streets very rapidly.
48 Hours
Stalking Shadows
If the doctor, the psychiatrist, looks at a patient and makes a decision about a treatment plan or a discharge plan, and he does that in so-called good faith, then he's immune by law from the consequences of that decision. I will read the verdict in this case.
48 Hours
Stalking Shadows
We've learned that there are profound limitations to what psychiatry can do and what its onus of responsibility should be.
48 Hours
Stalking Shadows
This man's assessment at discharge was correct. It was correct because he didn't do anything when he was discharged.
48 Hours
Stalking Shadows
The Cleveland Clinic has every medical device to benefit humankind. The one thing they don't have is a crystal ball that works.