Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
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Australas Psychiatry · Feb 2009
ReviewPsychiatrically impaired medical practitioners: better care to reduce harm and life impact, with special reference to impaired psychiatrists.
The aims are to briefly review treatment outcomes for impaired practitioners, and to explore how preventive and early intervention, and the accessing of and retention within treatment systems for impaired medical practitioners, and particularly psychiatrists, could be improved to maximize the doctors' chances of full recovery and to minimize danger to self and others. ⋯ Prevention, early detection, intervention, and treatment programs that are more continuous more sensitive to the needs of impaired practitioners, that are more continuous, better structured, and rehabilitation and recovery focused, may be more likely to produce a positive outcome.