From the Back Cover
This book comprehensively educates psychiatrists about malpractice and other liability. It is written to also specifically assist psychiatrists who are sued or are involved in other complaints.
The first two sections discuss malpractice law and the litigation process; the litigation section mainly addresses some of the more emotionally charged issues, including do's and don'ts, how an attorney will be looking at the case, the defendant doctor's testifying at deposition and trial, and the stress of being sued. The subsequent three sections address specific topics that give rise to liability, with each section taking a different perspective such as risks in particular clinical, by practice site, and special issues, including practice in special situations such as the current pandemic. The final section discusses other forms of liability, such as complaints to medical boards or professional association ethics committees.
An exceptional work, Malpractice and Liability in Psychiatry, functions as both a go-to handbook and all-encompassing read on the aforementioned topics.
Peter Ash, MD, DLFAPA
Emory University
Psychiatry and Law Services
Atlanta, Georgia
USA
Peter Ash, MD, DLFAPA, is a forensic child and adolescent psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Emory University where he directs the forensic psychiatry service and the forensic psychiatry fellowship. He is a past president of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, the Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association, and the Georgia Council for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Further biographical information is available online at: http: //jaapl.org/content/39/1/12
Richard L. Frierson, MD, DFAPA
Alexander G. Donald Professor of Psychiatry
Vice Chair for Education and Director, Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship
Department of Neuropsychiatry andBehavioral Science
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Columbia, South Carolina,
USA
Richard L. Frierson, M.D, DFAPA, is the Alexander G. Donald Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He is a Past President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. He is recipient of the Seymour Pollack Award for distinguished lifetime contributions to the teaching and educational functions of forensic psychiatry. He has served on committees for Recertification in Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Further biographical information is available online at: http: //jaapl.org/content/47/1/7
Susan Hatters Friedman, MD, DFAPA
Case Western Reserve University
Forensic Psychiatry
Cleveland, Ohio
USA
Susan Hatters Friedman, MD, DFAPA, serves as the inaugural Phillip J. Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Friedman serves as President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL), and has served as Chair of the Law and Psychiatry committee at the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP). Dr. Friedman served as Editor of the GAP book entitled Family Murder: Pathologies of Love and Hate, for which she and GAP were awarded the 2020 Manfred Guttmacher Award. Dr. Friedman also serves as the Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
