PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Meyer, Donald J.
AU  - Price, Marilyn
TI  - Forensic Psychiatric Assessments of Behaviorally Disruptive Physicians
DP  - 2006 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 72--81
VI  - 34
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/34/1/72.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/34/1/72.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law2006 Jan 01; 34
AB  - Forensic psychiatrists may be requested by a wide range of agencies and committees to assess physicians alleged to be behaviorally disruptive. Many of the adjudicatory procedures and questions of these agencies differ substantially from the familiar ones in civil litigation. Proximate cause and patient harm are not essential elements of the forensic questions raised by these health care agencies. In addition to assessing past professional conduct, the examiner is asked to opine about the examinee’s present and future professional health and fitness for duty and what treatment or professional supervision, if any, may be needed to ensure the continuance of those professional capacities.