ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Published Online: 1 April 1974
Page Count: 6

Suicide and Civil Litigation
Perr, IN
Professor of psychiatry and of community medicine, Rutgers Medical School, College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, N.J.

(Received 23 February 1973; accepted 25 July 1973)

Abstract

The responsibility of hospitals and physicians for suicide prevention continues to be a major problem confronting the health care professions. Suicide induced litigation was reviewed in 1960 and 1965 [1,2] and my purpose now is to bring up to date some of the conflicting issues characteristic of this problem.

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Paper ID: JFS10170J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS10170J
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