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Medical disclaimer
What the writing on this site is for, and the point at which it stops being enough.
Medical disclaimer
Effective date:
Review required before launch
This disclaimer must be reviewed by the practice’s attorney before launch, alongside the terms and the privacy notice. A disclaimer does not remove a clinician’s duty of care, and the wording below has not been checked against Florida law or the practice’s malpractice cover.
This site is information, not advice
Everything published here — the condition pages, the blog, the glossary, the medication guide and the self-assessment — is general information about psychiatric care. It is written to help you understand what happens in treatment and to arrive at an appointment with better questions. It is not medical advice, and it is not a substitute for being assessed by a clinician who knows your history.
No two people are the same, which is the whole basis of how this practice works. Nothing written for everybody can account for your circumstances, your other conditions, or the medicines you already take.
Reading this site does not make you a patient
A clinician-patient relationship with EV Psychiatry begins when you are accepted as a patient and seen for an appointment — not by reading these pages, completing the self-assessment, or sending us a message. Until then we cannot advise you, and we are not monitoring your health.
The self-assessment is a screening tool
The ADHD self-assessment uses a widely used screening questionnaire. A screening tool indicates whether a fuller assessment is worth having. It cannot diagnose anything, it can be wrong in both directions, and its result is a starting point for a conversation rather than a conclusion. Bring it to an appointment; do not act on it alone.
Never delay care because of something you read here
If you are worried about your health, speak to a clinician. Do not delay seeking advice, and do not stop, start or change the dose of any prescribed medicine because of something on this website. Stopping some psychiatric medicines suddenly is unsafe and needs to be planned with your prescriber.
In an emergency
EV Psychiatry is not a crisis service and this website is not monitored for emergencies. If you are in danger or need urgent help, call 911. For free, confidential support at any hour, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), or text HOME to 741741 (Crisis Text Line). Our crisis resources page lists these in full.
Links to other websites
Where we link to another organisation we do so because we think it is useful. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for what they publish or how they handle your information.
Questions
If anything here is unclear, or you think something on this site is wrong or out of date, please tell us at hello@evpsychiatry.com. Please do not include personal health information in an email.