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Assessing risk: are we being overcautious?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Paul Bacon
Paul Bacon*
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Bryan & Armstrong, Solicitors, The New Meeting House, St Peter's Court, Station Street, Mansfield, Notts NGI8 IEF
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In this paper, I wish to address three questions: “are we being overcautious in the assessment of risk?”; “should we actually assess risk?”; and “are clinicians the right people to be assessing risk?”.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 170 , Issue S32: Assessing risk in the mentally disordered , April 1997 , pp. 30 - 31
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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