Experts' Knowledge Cannot Replace Evidence - Centre for Suicide PreventionCentre for Suicide Prevention

Year: 1982 Source: Mental Disability Law Reporter, (January-February 1982), p.29 SIEC No: 19850532

This brief article is concerned with a new hearing granted a previously suicidal patient who had been conditionally released. The new hearing was granted by the Oregon Court of Appeals it was felt the Psychiatric Security Review Board had improperly relied on the 2 opinions of its expert members. (NBB)

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Experts’ Knowledge Cannot Replace Evidence