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Examples given by the court included geriatric patients and those with anxiety disorders, whose state of mind may prohibit understanding the true reality of low-risk treatments which are safe and provide an advantage to the patient and therefore therapeutic privilege should 'extend to cases where although patients have mental capacity, their ...
These are the important societal interests the psychotherapist-patient privilege works to protect. By contrast, if there existed no privilege for communications between psychotherapists and their patients, people would decide not to seek treatment for mental illness, particularly illnesses and traumas that are likely to result in litigation.
The Charter of Patients' Rights lists seventeen rights that patients are entitled to: [6] Right to information: Every patient has the right to know what is the illness that they are suffering, its causes, the status of the diagnosis (provisional or confirmed), expected costs of treatment. Furthermore, service providers should communicate this ...
Involuntary treatment is compared to torture [8] [70] on at least two special reports of the UN, one noting "forced psychiatric interventions, when committed against persons with psychosocial disabilities, satisfies both intent and purpose required under the article 1 of the Convention against Torture, notwithstanding claims of 'good intentions ...
Historically, before there were effective medications for the treatment of Crohn’s disease, the majority of Crohn’s patients needed surgery to address complications that would inevitably arise ...
If the patient were fearful of telling the truth to the physician because they believed the physician would report such behavior to the authorities, the treatment process could be rendered far more difficult, or the physician could make an incorrect diagnosis. For example, a below-age of consent patient came to a doctor with a sexually ...
A U.S. appeals court has rejected British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell's request to revisit its decision upholding her conviction for helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse ...
It’s been three weeks since the general election polls closed on Nov. 5, and there are still three races for the U.S. House of Representatives that remain too close to call: two in California ...