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Mental health and the law: the Australian, NZ and UK perspectives

Essentials 1 The emergency department is frequently the point of access to the mental health system. 2 Emergency physicians need to be able to distinguish between patients with physical and those with psychiatric illness. 3 Patients should only be committed…

The challenging patient

Essentials 1 Many patients characterized as ‘challenging’ share common characteristics, including complex and chronic medical disease, mental illness, marginalization, poverty, high levels of drug and alcohol use and lack of social supports, safety and security. 2 An understanding of the…