How do you handle requests for medication refills from patients who were formally terminated from care but report difficulty accessing a new psychiatrist?

What boundaries do you typically set once the therapeutic relationship has ended? Does your approach change if the medication carries a risk of dangerous withdrawal (e.g., benzodiazepines)?

Answer from: at Community Practice

It is essential when terminating a patient that you provide at least three formal referral names with a 30 day notice. One of these should be an agency that cannot refuse patients. This could be a county or state mental health clinic. If the referrals you provide refuse the patient, then you are ...

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