今年11月在南京召开第七届全国司法精神病学学术会议时,有一位医生向我反映:青岛一家精神病院有一住院病人假出院后,在海边溺水身亡,其家属委托律师控告医院要求巨额赔偿;理由是:病人在假出院期间,并未办理正式出院手续、还继续付住院费,因此医院应承担病人的监护责任,理应给予经济赔偿。司法部门与新闻媒介方面也认为病人一方是弱者,而偏向其家属的要求。问我此事该怎么办? 听到此事件后,使我首先感到:目前在社会广大群众中,不仅缺乏精神病学知识与对病人的护理常识,并且对精神病 At the Seventh National Symposium on Judicial Psychiatry in Nanjing in November this year, a doctor said to me: After a hospitalized patient was discharged from a mental hospital in Qingdao, he was drowned and died. His family members entrusted a lawyer to sue the hospital for huge compensation. The reason is: during the period of fake discharge, the patient did not go through the formal discharge formalities and continued to pay hospital fees. Therefore, the hospital should bear the patient’s guardianship responsibility and should be given financial compensation. The judiciary and the media also believe that one of the patients is weak and biased towards the request of their families. After hearing this incident, I first felt: At present, among the general public, there is not only a lack of common sense in psychiatric knowledge and patient care,