Titlebook: Law in the Practice of Psychiatry; A Handbook for Clini Seymour L. Halleck Book 1980 Plenum Publishing Corporation 1980 diagnosis.health.pa

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Confidentiality in Psychiatric Practice received directly from the patient, sometimes from medical records, and sometimes from the patient’s friends or loved ones. Some of the information the doctor accumulates could be embarrassing and damaging to the patient if communicated to a third party. At the same time there are many instances in