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Brenda Anne Sorochan, 41, was convicted of assaulting a 79-year-old woman in Edmonton, Alberta, in January; Sorochan had forgotten to take her medication for manic depression. Swiss airline passenger Thomas Dolder, 39, was released from a facility in Halifax, Nova Scotia, after assaulting a flight crew in October; he had left his antipsychotic medication in his checked baggage. Former Detroit police officer Paul Harrington, 53, was charged in October with killing his wife and children; he had run out of his medication for severe depression. Brian Drepaul, 25, was shot by police trying to break into his estranged wife’s home in Brampton, Ontario, in October; he had refused to take medication for schizophrenia.
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Hospitals in developing countries continue to have cash-flow problems, as in Zaire (reported in News of the Weird in 1996) and Iran (1999), where strong-arm tactics have been used on patients who cannot pay their bills. In January friends brought mugging victim Wilson Owuor to a hospital in Nairobi but were turned away because Owuor was unable to make a deposit. The men commandeered a stretcher, put Owuor on it, and took him to his bank to withdraw the money.
