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How do you handle requests from patients to complete medical paperwork that falls outside your scope of practice when they cannot access their other clinicians?

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Psychiatry · McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School

These requests are relatively common and can come from the patient, a healthcare institution, or another institution, such as an insurance company or school. A subtype is the forensic document, which can come from an attorney, a local state, or a federal agency. At times, law enforcement agencies ma...

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