Collaborative care—slow. Referral to a psychiatrist—even slower.
A shortage of psychiatrists not only delays quality psychiatric care for all patients, but introduces more complex psychiatric patients into primary care settings.
Navigating the rising risk of medication management malpractice in modern psychiatry: Targeted education.
While suicide remains the number one reason for a malpractice claim, thirty-three years of data from a leading malpractice insurer (PRMS) for psychiatrists indicates that up to 1/3rd of malpractice claims in psychiatry result from medication management issues.