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> Report from Wired News
> http://www.wired.com/news/
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> Robert Citkowitz, PhD
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> Net Savior Foils Suicide
>
> 12:27pm 29.Apr.98.PDT
> An American computer buff saved the life of a British woman
> after spotting her suicide note on an Internet bulletin board.
> Hospital Doctor, a weekly newspaper, said the unidentified hero
> sparked a transatlantic drama when he alerted British authorities. They
> broke into the woman's house and rescued her five hours after she took a
> cocktail of pills and alcohol.
>
> Dr Sean Lynch, the psychiatrist who treated the woman at St.
> James's University Hospital in Leeds, said electronic cries for help should
> be treated as seriously as written notes.
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Dr Ahmad Risk
http://mednetics.org
Chairman British Healthcare Internet Associaiton
http://www.bhia.org
Director Internet Healthcare Coalition (USA)
http://www.ihc.net
Home: +44 1273 724866/748198
Work: +44 1737 240022
Fax: +44 1737 244660/1273 728931
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