Confidential Treatment Programs For Physicians With Mental Illness - Statement Of American Medical Student Association

The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) supports confidential treatment programs for physicians with mental illness, including substance abuse, despite recent scrutiny. Mental illness is a chronic disease and all patients deserve the same privacy rights. To treat physicians differently is discriminatory. Such discriminatory treatment is perpetuated by stigma in society regarding persons with mental illness. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Medical Students on December 30th, 2007