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Now Mental Health Patients Can Specify Their Care Before Hallucinations and Voices Overwhelm Them
Posted on Dec 03 2018
The New York Times
Provides an in-depth look at the benefits of psychiatric advance directives (PAD) for patients with serious mental illness which allows them to specify the treatment they want if they become too sick to say so.
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