During an era where physicians go to great lengths to limit personal risk and ensure self-
protection from lawsuits, psychiatrists may be inclined to err on the side of involuntarily …

Under what circumstances, if any, is it ethically justified to hospitalize and treat people with
clinical features of mental disturbance, despite their objection? For many clinicians, people …

Care of patients with acute psychiatric conditions presents numerous clinical challenges to
emergency physicians, including assessment of risk for harm to self and others, assessment …

Two general ethical problems in psychiatry are thrown into sharp relief by long term care.
This article discusses each in turn, in the context of two anonymised case studies from actual …

Little has been written about the issue of involuntary hospitalization in consultation-liaison
psychiatry. Nevertheless, patients frequently seen in medical and surgical settings may be …

Background Medically hospitalized patients who lack decisional capacity may request,
demand, or attempt to leave the hospital despite grave risk to themselves. The treating …

Med Law (2010) 29:193-204 Medicine and Law Medical Ethics ETHICAL DILEMMAS OF
STATUTORY COMMITTEES FOR INVOLUNTARY HOSPITALIZATI Page 1 Med Law (2010) …

Debate continues over the ethics, constitutionality, and therapeutic benefit of emergency
involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill (EIH). Critics of EIH have been concerned not …

P sychiatrists are the only physicians who frequently hospitalize and treat patients against
their will. Involuntary hospitaliza-tion of a mentally ill person can be ordered either by a …

It is not uncommon in forensic psychiatry that the duty to care for the patient conflicts with the
responsibility to the court, or the duty to protect the public from harm from the potentially …