title: 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.affiliation: Health Law and Policy Program, Pace University School of Law, USA.
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Fentiman
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kaufman
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Merton
authors.forename: E F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Teitell
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zonana
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003617:Dangerous Behavior; D033002:Duty to Recontact / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D017007:Duty to Warn; D006801:Humans; D016365:Liability, Legal; D008297:Male; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D010378:Pedophilia; D010820:Physicians / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011570:Psychiatry; D011613:Psychotherapy; D016079:Refusal to Treat; D012941:Social Responsibility