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: Source Type: research