The medical health emergency card
- 22 February 1997
- Vol. 314 (7080) , 532
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.314.7080.532
Abstract
The idea of an emergency card carried by patients with certain conditions-for example, diabetes-is not new. A similar card for mentally ill patients is also not new: a users' group, Survivors Speak Out, first introduced a crisis card in 1989, and interest has since grown.1 Known as a mental health emergency card, its aim is to enable patients to give advance directives about their management. As such the card poses particular problems, not least in relation to the legal status of advance directives.2 At first sight mental health emergency cards seem to have something for everyone.3 However, contradictions in the objectives of different groups have delayed their widespread implementation and led to an atmosphere of distrust. Survivors Speak Out, the inventor of the card, …Keywords
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