...Slieter said that if a patient was judged to be violent and/or dangerous the person could only be held at the Baxter psychiatric hospital for a period of 24 hours. The more typical patient, Slieter said, will be someone with a mental illness...

In an age when many mistaken attitudes about medicine have gone the way of the doctor's house call, mental illness continues to be a biological impairment that's misunderstood.

The front page story about the Baxter psychiatric hospital by Mike O'Rourke on Feb. 3 was right on in many respects and wide of the mark in others. Mental illness, as the story said...