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sang and danced around the room as if giving a performance,
crawled around on the floor, stood on the toilet, got in the shower fully clothed, tried to walk out of the room in a state of undress, and on at least one occasion drank her own urine. Your Affiant learned from the testimony of caretakers and other employees that Lisa McPherson was undergoing an isolation watch, in the hope that her condition would improve and stabilize, so she could undergo a Scientology procedure known as an introspection rundown. Your Affiant further learned that Lisa was held down and medicated with an irrigation syringe, held down during injections of magnesium chloride, given numerous doses of vitamins and herbal sleep remedies and given prescription drugs even though she was never seen by and had no patient/doctor relationship with the prescribing physician.
Your Affiant has found no indication that the caretakers in
charge of Lisa’s welfare made any attempt to have her mental and physical condition evaluated Or treated by a physician at any time during her stay until her arrival at Columbia HCA New Port Richey Hospital on December 5, 1995. Your. Affiant did learn that Janice Johnson, David Houghton, and Alain Kartuziriski had conversations with Dr. Minkoff in which they related to him that Lisa was a “type three” meaning “psychotic” and needed medication to help her sleep. Dr. Minkoff did, in fact, presribe injectable Valium for Lisa under David Houghton’s name on November 20, 1995 and issued a second prescription for the sedative chioral hydrate |
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