Is a criminal a disease? Is a disease a crime?

Is a criminal a disease? Is a disease a crime? Japanese medical care treats the elderly and hospitalized patients as criminals

November 21, 2023 | The world's most confusing psychiatric medical care and psychiatric nursing in Japan

"Not following the rules" can lead to being caught by the police, put on trial, and becoming a criminal.

In order to maintain social order, the procedure for putting those who break the rules on trial and rehabilitating them is called "judicial justice."

However, since "judicial judgments" can also be wrong, the system of lawyers gives criminals called suspects and defendants the opportunity to defend themselves.

Why does Japanese medical care not have a medical lawyer or medical monitor system?

There are elderly people with dementia who are forced to wear straitjackets at night because they "will fall out of bed,"

people who are restrained in wheelchairs as a way to "get out of bed so they don't walk around on their own and fall,"

people who have mittens on their hands and have their hands fixed with bed rails to "prevent them from removing the CV route themselves."

These elderly people scream in front of nursing students, "Help me!", "Let me out!", "Let me go home!"

This is not a medical procedure performed in a psychiatric hospital.

It is a routine procedure performed in general hospitals.

Seeing this scene makes me feel that "in Japan, illness and aging are the same as crime."

"It is a crime for people who are likely to fall and break a bone to walk around freely of their own volition."

The reason is that "refusing medical treatment, or dangerous acts such as falling" can be ignored and the patient can be tied to the bed, making an "arrest."

The patient clearly refuses.

But the nurses on the scene calmly say, "It's okay because we got consent from the family."

They think, "As long as it doesn't lead to a lawsuit, there's no problem."

This is common sense in Japanese medicine.

No one helps.

Family members also have to work to make a living, so they just dump the "nuisance elderly" on the hospital and don't get involved.

In fact, hospitals other than psychiatric hospitals have also become detention centers to maintain social order.

Social hospitalization is born.

There, there is no check function by lawyers like in the judicial system.

Is it a crime to be "unwell and unable to live without care"?

In Japan, aging is treated as an illness, and if you go to a medical institution, you are treated as a "senile old person" or "at risk of falling or sudden changes."

"Unproductive old people are the same as those who are hospitalized in psychiatric hospitals and are shut-ins who do not work."

The role of hospitals is to "give a diagnosis to the troublesome old people who do not die easily and the shut-ins who do not work at a young age, and take care of them until they die."

Medical care is not actually saving lives, but just prolonging life so that they do not die, and I think that many people will fall into the feeling that they are just dealing with a defeat or making a living as scavengers.

Furthermore, an article on the nature of medical care is written in Rapt Theory +α.

"August 25, 2023: As a result of excessive life-prolonging treatment, the number of bedridden elderly in Japan exceeds 3 million, far and away the highest in the world https://rapt-plusalpha.com/82492/"

What should we do to live happily in a society without answers?

I think it's time to delve deeper into human happiness, asking questions like "What is a human being?" and "How should we live our lives?"

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（犯罪者は病気なのか？病気は犯罪なのか？高齢者や入院患者を犯罪者扱いする日本医療　2023年11月21日 |より転載）