Patients often feel anxiety over losing a therapist to illness or even death that they don't feel comfortable expressing out loud. Here's how proactive transparency can help, by thinkpsychiatry
of the broader considerations that a mental health professional may wish to consider in drafting such a document. Templates are also available online to download. Succession plans will obviously vary based on the circumstances of specific clinicians. However, several issues are common to most professional wills including:Affording that agent information and tools that will allow the agent to access relevant patient information when necessary.
Clinicians may wish to secure waivers from their patients in advance that permit their designated agents' access to records in instances of death or debility, notwithstanding HIPAA and state confidentiality rules to the contrary.In some circumstances, especially if death is anticipated, one may wish to identify a potential future clinician for each patient and ensure a mechanism for both a transfer of records.
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