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Psychiatrists face a small but real risk from seriously ill patients
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BMJ
2006;333:1112.3
Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals tend, quite naturally, to deny the risk of personal injury associated with their work, writes a US psychiatrist. Serious mental illness is already profoundly stigmatising. Who wants to add to it by labelling patients …
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