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Abstract
Clinical psychiatrists often try to avoid medicolegal collaboration because pragmatic difficulties and philosophical differences combine with a sense of diminishing return to make it seem an unproductive area of professional activity. There is a need for rapprochement in the working relationship of lawyers and physicians. In an attempt to facilitate such rapprochement several sources of potential conflict which currently exist are delineated. Differences in subject matter and in methodology are important. Differences in philosophy of practice contribute to a sense of strain and the very nature of the adversarial courtroom situation offends many physicians who fail to appreciate its potential virtues. Lawyers and physicians differ in their approaches to decision-making processes in ways that are mutually vexatious. Some suggestions are reiterated which, if more widely practised, could help us collaborate more effectively with our legal colleagues to the ultimate betterment of our patients and clients.
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