Health Care & Hospital Law
Aug. 10, 1999
Casting a Critical Eye on Legal Treatment of the Mentally Ill
Anyone familiar with downtown Los Angeles would recognize the characters in this movie. Some lolled on bus stop benches in coma-like states. Others walked swiftly down the grimy streets of Skid Row, gesturing wildly and talking rapidly to themselves in conversations without a beginning or an end. Still others showed off their cardboard condos for the camera. One ham even sat down at a piano in the backroom of a shelter and spontaneously tried to thump out a tune.
Some lolled on bus stop benches in coma-like states. Others walked swiftly down the grimy streets of Skid Row, gesturing wildly and talking rapidly to themselves i...
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