From ABC7/WXYZ Detroit: “‘I’ll never forget it. I’ll never get over it.’ That’s how Bri Jackson describes her stay inside a local psychiatric hospital – a stay Bri says never should have happened.
‘If you would have told me that something like that would happen, I would find it so hard to believe in the United States of America,’ said another patient, who asked for anonymity, about their stay in the same psych ward.
These patients and others are alleging they were locked up and held against their will in Pontiac General Hospital’s psychiatric unit, or coerced into staying for treatment for illnesses they say they do not have.
Very few people have been willing to talk publicly about what’s going on behind the closed doors of a locked psychiatric ward. But now patients, parents, and employees are coming forward to talk to us about what they say are their experiences with the psychiatric treatment at some local hospitals and with psychiatrist Dr. Nagy Kheir.
After the 7 Investigators started asking questions in the probate courts about Dr. Kheir last spring, he suddenly resigned from one of the hospitals where he was in charge. But he’s still working for at least two other hospitals where patients say he has all the power over them.
They describe a system that uses the courts or the threat of the courts to keep patients locked up longer than necessary. Also, the 7 Investigators have discovered a crucial court form that can rob you of your freedom, that’s being signed long before a doctor ever examines you.”
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