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The American College of Emergency Physicians will vote at an October meeting on whether to formally disavow its 2009 position paper supporting excited delirium as a diagnosis that helped undergird those court cases.
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“It’s junk science,” said Martin Chenevert, a physician at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center.
“It’s junk science,” said Martin Chenevert, a physician at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center.
“It’s junk science,” said Martin Chenevert, a physician at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center. The theory has been used to provide a cover for police misconduct, he said. “It had an agenda.”