NEW ORLEANS ― Evaluating a patient's capacity to make decisions about his or her personal healthcare can present a significant challenge for physicians, but evaluating intoxicated patients has its own ...
The issue of capacity should be at the very forefront of medical malpractice litigation involving self-represented plaintiffs. This is especially true in the context of psychiatric malpractice.
New York’s efforts to expand the number of available beds at state-run psychiatric facilities have made it more prepared than most other states to address the mental health crisis, according to a ...
A term that is often misunderstood, in the context of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, is ‘material time’, which is used at section 2(1) of the MCA: "For the purposes of this Act, a person lacks capacity ...
The assisted dying Bill could have “enhanced protections” added regarding assessments of mental capacity, Parliament heard during the final debate on the legislation this year. Labour peer Lord ...
New York’s efforts to expand the number of available beds at state-run psychiatric facilities have made it more prepared than most other states to address the mental health crisis, according to a ...
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