Can a person on anti-psychotic medication practice medicine?

Our State Board of Medicine has a set of established laws and regulations that cover the competency of practioners, including physical and mental health issues. As long as treatment for chronic psych-related conditions are regularly monitored, the affected physician may retain his/her license and continue to practice medicine. Untreated psychosis or substance abuse make up a different matters and would result in suspension of privileges here. Each state board has its own rules about these matters. Check with your local board if you have questions about a local doctor.

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That's a good question. I would think if this kind of issue was real, then the physician treating the physician having hallucinations may intervene and have recommend until the hallucinations disappear no practicing. It would certainly be a liability for the physician being treated. Treatment overall is a privacy issue and providing potential patient harm may be brought to the hospital administration for how to deal with this issue.

In most places, if a person has a psychiatric condition that is kept in check by meications and therapy for six months or more, then the can return to the medical practice, but while they are beginning treatment they are temporarily suspended incase there is an other episode. When it comes to hallucinations, a doctor should really go under voluntary suspension until the cause is found and appropriate treatment begun, regardless of whether psychiatric medication is required. Hell, I had hallucinations due to an allergic reaction to a penicillin-based antibiotic once, and I was not even allowed to attend my nursing classes until the cause was found and the hallucinations ceased.

This indeed totally depends on the board of the hospital and the country you live in. I live in Holland and we have a doctor with manic depression. She is very good in her job and need medication to function properly. And that is just the point, because she is taking medication she functions like any other doctor. Maybe she understands some patients even better than normal docters.

The point is that if you take medication you are not always ill. The medication is used to become healthy again. Should people who take aspirin not work because they wouldnt function well if the had a headache?

Offocurse i mean this strictly when the person doesnt has hallucinations at that time. When you have hallucinations you shouldnt play doctor that moment ;).