Doctors abandon a diagnosis used to justify police custody deaths. It might live on, anyway.
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 17, 2023
This story originally appeared at KFF Health News.
Brooks Walsh hadn’t questioned whether “excited delirium syndrome” was a legitimate medical diagnosis before the high-profile police killings of Elijah McClain in Colorado in 2019 and George Floyd in Minnesota in 2020.
The emergency physician in Bridgeport, Connecticut . . .
