NEW ORLEANS ― Evaluating a patient's capacity to make decisions about his or her personal healthcare can present a significant challenge for physicians, but evaluating intoxicated patients has its own ...

The issue of capacity should be at the very forefront of medical malpractice litigation involving self-represented plaintiffs. This is especially true in the context of psychiatric malpractice.

San Francisco is doubling the capacity of its locked psychiatric ward for patients experiencing severe mental illness and addiction as the city continues to add beds to deal with the crisis on its ...

A term that is often misunderstood, in the context of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, is ‘material time’, which is used at section 2(1) of the MCA: "For the purposes of this Act, a person lacks capacity ...

New York’s efforts to expand the number of available beds at state-run psychiatric facilities have made it more prepared than most other states to address the mental health crisis, according to a ...

Psychological testing and evaluation consists of a series of tests that help determine the cause of mental health symptoms and disorders, to determine the correct diagnosis and follow up with the ...