Friday, June 06, 2014

Help! My Patient Got Arrested. What Do I Do?

Today over on Clinical Psychiatry News I give advice to mental health practitioners about what to do when you need to make sure your patient is taken care of when he ends up in jail. This is never the kind of stuff they teach you in residency, so I end up fielding phone calls from friends and colleagues about it sometimes.

Hopefully you'll never have to deal with this, but if you do you'll know where to begin. Read the column here.


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