Can therapist of psychiatrist be sued if patient commits suicide?!
Question: Can a therapist or psychiatrist get their licenses taken away or sued if their patient commits suicide?
Does anyone know?
Answers: Can a therapist or psychiatrist get their licenses taken away or sued if their patient commits suicide?
Does anyone know?
Yes, they can be sued, but there's no guarantee that the lawsuit will be successful. There's no guarantee that a license will be suspended either. There has to be pretty strong evidence that the psychiatrist or therapist did something inappropriate.
Suicide is fairly common among mentally ill people. I never heard of a psychiatrist or therapist losing a lawsuit or license because of suicide.
We had a lawsuit against our hospital when a patient died from side effects of Clozaril. It turned out that people of Jewish ancestry were at high risk to have the side effect of lowered white blood cell count and somehow they overlooked the fact that he was Jewish.
We got into trouble one other time when we released a guy to the police. He had threatened to kill his wife. Then the cops let him go home and he killed her and shot himself. The police got into more trouble than the hospital, though.
I heard of psychiatrists losing their licenses over having sex with patients, writing phony prescriptions and billing for seeing patients they didn't really see. But I never heard of that happening because of a suicide.
it depends. Sometimes its hard to sue a psychiatrist that has a private practice. They have so much insurance that they really wouldn't lose any money. Getting their license taken away depends on what the person had done. Usually mental hospital or somebody getting treated there would be more successful of getting sued.
They cannot have that happen to them unless they tell the "therapist/phychiatrist" and she/he doesnt tell anyone. In this case the therapist/phychiatrist can be sued and their licenses will be taken away. Why are you asking.
I have a feeling yes
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I would recommend that you read the following web link that I have provided. This will answer many questions that I'm certain you have; in more depth. The article is from the American Journal of Psychiatry - Resident's Journal.
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/data...
Have a good evening.
It's not likely that a therapist will get sued if someone commits
suicide. The reason is because alot of people take medications that help short term, but in long run can actually
make the person more depressed and then they do commit
suicide. It happens all the time. Med are helpful to a point
only. Also not everyone can be helped. Some people just
can't take it anymore and want to end thier life. I know some
days are bad for us all, but some people just want it to be over and they end it. I don't think a therapist or psychiatrist
would be at fault.
Only if it can be shown that the therapist violated procedures intended to keep the patient safe. Therapists sometimes see very depressed patients; some of these patients commit suicide. Suing a therapist for a depressed person's suicide is like suing a doctor for a cancer patient's death if the chemotherapy fails.
What? That's just crazy talk, it's not their fault.
why do you want to do so.
first thing that a mental patient can committ suicide any time and THE PSYCHIARIST is just helping him/her and his family agaist this work.
tell me if a person is helping another person who is dyeing in the river, the person tried most but another man eventually dies. will you sued him for his murder.
never
so don't think that the psychiasrist madication are the causal factor for his suicide.
thaks