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- Title: In re Woodie
- Author : Court of Appeals of North Carolina
- Release Date : January 20, 1994
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
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JOHNSON, Judge. A hearing on the involuntary commitment of appellant David Larry Woodie was held on 14 June 1993 at Catawba Memorial Hospital. Evidence presented at the hearing for the State showed the following: Appellant's wife, Angela Woodie, testified that on 1 June 1993, appellant took an overdose of medicine around 10:30 p.m.; that she got up and noticed appellant's medicine bottles were empty and she called 911 for help; that the 911 officers arrived and convinced appellant to go with them to the hospital; that they went to Lincoln County Hospital where appellant was treated from 1 June 1993 until 7 June 1993; and that appellant was in the intensive care unit for three days. She testified further that before appellant was released from the hospital on 7 June 1993, Dr. Robert Reed scheduled an appointment for appellant with Dr. Tong Su Kim; that she, appellant's mother and appellant went to see Dr. Kim; that appellant left Dr. Kim's office after being told he needed to be hospitalized; that appellant's mother said when appellant left the office, ""he said they were going to lock him up and he was going to kill hisself""; that appellant had also tried to harm himself on 7 July 1992; and that ""off and on"" he had made statements about harming himself and that ""sometimes when you'd think everything was okay . . . he would just, you know, make the statement he wanted to die.""