Where money and the law intersect, truth can sometimes be the victim

Afterword from a story entitled “Litigation Lane,” excerpted from Beyond Bedlam’s Door: True Tales from the Couch and Courtroom (Thunder Lake Press).  Forensic psychiatry involves the interface of psychiatry and the law. Over the years, I was asked to psychiatrically evaluate people in the context of civil litigation. Both plaintiff and defense attorneys retained my services to determine if an accident or incident that was the subject of a lawsuit involved psychiatric injury. The people suing could be rape victims where a landlord had not provided adequate security in a building; or people who had been in accidents of every kind; others had been wrongfully terminated from their jobs; some had been discriminated against or sexually harassed at work. I was involved in evaluating people who had been in many different tortious situations: some bizarre, others rather routine. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
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