Could Self-Operated Assisted Suicide Devices Be Coming to a Town near You?
This article considers both federal and state considerations around the legality of self-operated assisted suicide devices.
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Read more: Suicide Prevention and Patient Safety Suicide Prevention and Patient Safety
Suicide prevention needs to be taken more seriously globally by governments, health systems as an urgent public health concern. WHO (World Health Organisation) states that close to 800,000 people die due to suicide every year, which translates to one person dying every 40 seconds. For each adult who died by suicide there may have been…
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Read more: Psychiatrists’ Liability for Patient’s Violence Against Other People: Washington Supreme Court Abolishes the Inpatient-Outpatient Distinction Psychiatrists’ Liability for Patient’s Violence Against Other People: Washington Supreme Court Abolishes the Inpatient-Outpatient Distinction
By Alex Stein In a recent decision, Volk v. DeMeerleer, 386 P.3d 254 (Wash. 2016), the Washington Supreme Court relaxed the “control” prerequisite for psychiatrists’ duty to protect third parties against violent patients. The Court made this decision in a case involving a psychiatric patient who murdered his girlfriend and her nine-year old son and then committed suicide (after…
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Read more: Outpatient Psychiatric Treatment: The Duty to Prevent Patient Suicide Outpatient Psychiatric Treatment: The Duty to Prevent Patient Suicide
By Alex Stein In Chirillo v. Granicz, — So.3d —- (Fla. 2016), 2016 WL 4493536, the Florida Supreme Court formulated an important rule for psychiatric malpractice cases. Back in 2001, the First District Court of Appeal decided that psychiatrists assume no liability for an outpatient’s suicide because it is generally unforeseeable. Tort liability, it held, can…
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Read more: “Proximate Cause” and the Patient Suicide Problem “Proximate Cause” and the Patient Suicide Problem
By Alex Stein This difficult problem and the underlying human tragedy have recently been adjudicated by the Supreme Court of Mississippi in Truddle v. Baptist Memorial Hosp.-Desoto, Inc., — So.3d —- (Miss. 2014). A hospital patient suffering from a number of illnesses became agitated and aggressive. He took the IV out of his arm and attempted…