Patient rights and mental health.
In an era of strong concern for patients' rights in medical care, particularly where mental health-related services are involved, it is useful for the health professional--the physician in particular--to have meaningful guidance in understanding the difficult legal, ethical and policy issues they face in their daily practice. This article discusses the patients' rights provisions of the recently enacted federal Mental Health Systems Act as one important source of such guidance.
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