Just when you think you've seen it all

My facility is full of people with major psychiatric diagnoses. They can't cope with life in the real world and many either have guardians or invoked health care proxies. The other day one of them decided he was going to leave. Naturally we couldn't let him. We called his health care proxy who said no...keep him there. The resident is trying to say that the person who is his health care proxy wasn't his choice. It's the alternate who, he says, was picked by a health care proxy he 'fired'. We tried to tell him that since the proxy has been invoked, there is nothing we can do. It's too late for him to change his pick. So, and here's the best part--he called his friend (who used to be a resident but signed out AMA) and his friend started looking on line. They've downloaded a writ of habeas corpus and are taking us to court saying we are holding the man illegally.

The poor guy can barely operate in a facility. There is NO way he'd make it in the real world...so he marches himself in my office on Friday and says "You better look good on Monday because I'm taking you to court". I said "I always look good and why are you taking me to court?" He says it's nothing personal....yikes. I can hardly wait to get to work tomorrow to see what happens. What ever happened to those sweet little old ladies who used to live in nursing facilities?