Legal and Ethical Challenges, Part 1
This article presents and discusses these challenges, including the physician-patient rela tionship, malpractice, confidentiality and privilege, duty to report, decision-making capacity and vicarious decision-making, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, right to treatment, hospital admissions, involuntary commitment, forced medication administration, and child and elder abuse.
Source: The Psychiatric Clinics of North America - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Britta Ostermeyer, Anim N. Shoaib, Swapna Deshpande Source Type: research
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