How Often Do Mental Health Professionals Get Sued For Suicide?
How Often Do Mental Health Professionals Get Sued For Suicide? Forty-one percent of US psychiatrists have been sued for malpractice at least once, findings from the newly released Medscape Psychiatrist Malpractice Report 2019 show. What is suicide malpractice? Briefly, malpractice is a tort action wherein a plaintiff (typically a surviving family member of someone who