Archive for the ‘Anti-Psychotics’ Category
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PSYCHIATRIC DIMENSIONS OF MEDICAL PRACTICE: COMPETENCE TO REFUSE MEDICAL ADVICE-THE CONCEPT OF COMPETENCE
In its most basic sense, competence is defined as the ability to carry out a particular task. To assess someone’s competence to do something, there must be a set of criteria against which her performance can be judged. Because those criteria are task-specific, an individual’s competence in one field (e.g., the practice of psychiatry) does [...]