Duty of Care Versus Safety of a Colleague

Journal of Ethics in Mental Health 3:1-4 (2008)
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This case describes a psychiatric patient who stalked and harassed her former psychiatrist. Balancing the safety risk to her physician against the duty to continue to treat this vulnerable patient, what should the current psychiatrist and the treating institution do?

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reprint Seeman, Mary V. (2009) "Duty of care versus safety of a colleague". Journal of Ethics in Mental Health 3(1):7

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Bioethics in a clinic for women with psychosis.M. V. Seeman & B. Seeman - 2011 - Journal of Medical Ethics 37 (9):518-522.

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