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Doctors Abandon a Diagnosis Used to Justify Police Custody Deaths. It Might Live On, Anyway.

The American College of Emergency Physicians agreed to withdraw its 2009 white paper on excited delirium, removing the only official medical pillar of support left for the theory that has played a key role in absolving police of culpability for in-custody deaths.

Police Blame Some Deaths on ‘Excited Delirium.’ ER Docs Consider Pulling Plug on Term.

The American College of Emergency Physicians will vote in early October on whether to disavow its 2009 research paper on excited delirium, which has been cited as a cause of death and used as a legal defense by police officers in several high-profile cases.

Life in a Rural ‘Ambulance Desert’ Means Sometimes Help Isn’t on the Way

No local hospital and anemic ambulance services mean residents in rural Pickens County, Alabama, are thrown into perilous situations when they have medical emergencies. It’s a kind of medical care roulette that has become a fact of life for rural Americans who live in ambulance deserts.