Current Issues in the Psychiatrist-Patient Relationship: Outpatient Civil Commitment, Psychiatric Abandonment and the Duty to Continue Treatment of Potentially Dangerous Patients--Balancing Duties to Patients and the Public

Authors

Vanessa Merton, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace UniversityFollow
Linda C. Fentiman, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace UniversityFollow

Comments

Transcript of panel discussion, part of special program presented on April 8, 1999 by Pace Law School and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, entitled Playing the Psychiatric Odds: Can We Protect the Public by Predicting Dangerousness. Panelists included Linda C. Fentiman, Gaileen Kaufman, Vanessa Merton, Ernest F. Teitell, and Howard Zonana.

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Recommended Citation

Linda C. Fentiman, Vanessa Merton et al., Current Issues in the Psychiatrist-Patient Relationship: Outpatient Civil Commitment, Psychiatric Abandonment and the Duty to Continue Treatment of Potentially Dangerous Patients--Balancing Duties to Patients and the Public, 20 Pace L. Rev. 231 (2000), http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/lawfaculty/166.