No Evidence Yates Was Psychotic, Doctor Says
The psychiatrist who decided to take Andrea Yates off anti-psychotic medication testified that he saw no evidence she was psychotic when he examined her two days before she drowned her five children.
Yates’ husband, Russell, contends his wife didn’t receive adequate care during two extended stays at Devereux Texas Treatment Network, where Dr. Mohammad Saeed was a unit medical director, and that the children might be alive if she had received proper care.
Saeed said he decided June 4 to gradually take Andrea Yates, 37, off her medication because he thought it was hindering her progress. “I cannot find any evidence that psychosis was playing any important role,” Saeed testified at the murder trial in Houston.
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