Legal Regulation Of Psychiatry
The practice of psychiatry is often the subject to litigation. These exposures to potential liability commonly include areas of informed consent, voluntary and involuntary hospitalization, disclosure, rights to treatment, appropriateness of treatment, societal safety, patient self-determination, treatment boundaries, misconduct and malpractice as well as establishment of medical and psychiatric management practices. The experience of the Psychiatric Expert Witness can have an enormous bearing on the outcome of such cases.
