11.   And there are particular risks with psychiatric patients, with the whole issue of informed consent.

12.   As Floyd treats his psychiatric patients, he preens, gesticulates and waves his wings in the air.

13.   A few years ago, Bellevue began offering psychiatric patients nicotine patches and recently assigned an addiction specialist to run smoking cessation programs.

14.   A long-time psychiatric patient, Hudon had no previous history of heart disease, Duquette said.

15.   But he has said in published reports that the Jemez Springs center no longer treats psychiatric patients and now concentrates on holding group retreats.

16.   For decades, hospitals have turned away psychiatric patients they deemed difficult or expensive to treat.

17.   He cited North Carolina law protecting patient confidentiality and patient medical records, and protections for psychiatric patients and their treatment.

18.   He condemned the broad use of physical restraints on psychiatric patients, in Charter and other facilities.

19.   He said his occupation was working with psychiatric patients.

20.   He said many of the predominantly private hospitals the association represents were dumping psychiatric patients for many of the reasons cited in the study.