Medicolegal Issues
Commentary
Liability protection when practicing during a disaster: How the laws work
What you need to understand before offering to provide services during a disaster.
Pearls
Metadata, malpractice claims, and making changes to the EHR
Because we cannot change metadata, guidance on making corrections in EHR documentation can help to minimize liability in medical malpractice cases...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Using seclusion to prevent COVID-19 transmission on inpatient psychiatry units
Ethical factors guide seclusion of patients who test positive for COVID-19 or refuse testing.
Pearls
Legal concerns after a patient suicide
We offer guidance on how to cope with a patient's completed suicide, and specifically address the legal concerns.
Pearls
Off-label prescribing: How to limit your liability
A step-by-step approach for helping to reduce your liability risk in off-label prescribing.
Reviews
Does your patient have the right to refuse medications?
A brief guide to the legal aspects of administering involuntary medications.
Pearls
Called to court? Tips for testifying
As a psychiatrist, you could be called to court to testify as a fact witness in a hearing or trial.
Opinion
Legal duty to nonpatients: Driving accidents
A doctor’s legal duty may be extended to individuals other than patients in limited circumstances.
Medicolegal Issues
Pharmacologic performance enhancement: What to consider before prescribing
Psychiatrists are increasingly finding themselves in the controversial position of 'gatekeeper' of these medications for enhancement purposes.
Commentary
Physician impairment: A need for prevention
“Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Commentary
Sexual harassment and medicine
Sexual harassment hit a peak of cultural awareness over the past year. Will medicine be the next field to experience a reckoning?