People being held against their will and drugged at long-stay psychiatric hospitals. Psychiatric hospitals profit from keeping their patients looked up instead of them getting their freedom back. Drugs given to calm the patients can make it easier to interact with the patient for the hospital even when the drugs aren’t increasing the likelihood of recovery for the patients.
Prediction-based medicine would allow psychiatric hospitals to compete on actually provide good treatments. You could have experts at multiple mental hospitals give predictions for the various outcomes of their treatment before admitting a new patient and then let the hospital with the best treatment prognosis take the patient.
If you want to take a more conventional approach if you consider the person in question to be unable to consent because of mental illness you could make it an option for their spouse/family to overrule doctors the way you allow them to make decisions for other medical decisions unless a court decided about admitting the person to a mental institution.
People being held against their will and drugged at long-stay psychiatric hospitals. Psychiatric hospitals profit from keeping their patients looked up instead of them getting their freedom back. Drugs given to calm the patients can make it easier to interact with the patient for the hospital even when the drugs aren’t increasing the likelihood of recovery for the patients.
Whichever private or public organisation is paying is not incentivised to pay for long stays.
It’s not like there’s a different viable choice, is there.
Prediction-based medicine would allow psychiatric hospitals to compete on actually provide good treatments. You could have experts at multiple mental hospitals give predictions for the various outcomes of their treatment before admitting a new patient and then let the hospital with the best treatment prognosis take the patient.
If you want to take a more conventional approach if you consider the person in question to be unable to consent because of mental illness you could make it an option for their spouse/family to overrule doctors the way you allow them to make decisions for other medical decisions unless a court decided about admitting the person to a mental institution.
Sounds kinda utopian even in a not-the-least-convenient-world.