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The focus of this section is on the practical application of basic ethical and legal principles to the practice of medicine. After a brief overview, several case studies will illustrate the practical application of pertinent ethical and legal principles in the management of psychiatric illness in the geriatric population.
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Hategan, A., Bourgeois, J.A., Cheng, T., Young, J. (2018). Ethics and Law. In: Geriatric Psychiatry Study Guide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77128-1_4
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