doctors use medical restraints on patients for several legitimate reasons. Some patients must have hands secured to beds to ...

But we do have federal regulations that govern how we use medical “restraints”—soft cuffs on the wrists or ankles of agitated patients—which begin with the premise that no hospitalized ...

Read about allegations by young mental health patients of abuse and cruelty from nurses at Skye House in Glasgow.

Standardized patients are individuals who are specially trained to act as patients for the instruction, practice and assessment of medical examination skills of medical students, fellows, residents ...

"Vauter's abuse was miles outside of reasonable medical practice," Britt said ... Virginia administrative code generally forbids keeping an adult patient in restraints for more than four hours. Still, ...

How often patients were restrained varied in different areas ... their freedom to move and damaging their dignity, leading many medical institutes to work toward finding other ways.