Nothing new under the sun: clozapine rechallenge following a life-threatening medical event in a patient with psychiatric illness and developmental disability.

Mr. K is a 41-year-old man with a history of mild mental retardation and schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, who lives alone in a staff-supported apartment and attends a supervised workshop at which he does piecework.He is a client of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation (DMR) and has an assigned service coordinator. He is in close contact with his mother, who lives nearby and is, along with one of his three sisters, his co-guardian and court-appointed monitor for the use of antipsychotic medications. His mother is his representative payee for managing his Social Security disability funds. His father is deceased.