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Dr. Bayrakal believes that the time has come for the family physician to deal with minor psychiatric disturbances in his office as well as psychiatric emergencies in the emergency department. The newly emerging medico-social philosophy of both the federal and provincial governments, he says, is giving greater responsibility and authority to the family physician in every area of medicine, including psychiatry.

Emergency powers are essential to the proper functioning of the government. Emergencies demand swift and decisive action; yet, our system of government also values deliberation and procedures. To enable such agility in a system fraught with bureaucracy, Congress frequently delegates unilateral statutory emergency powers directly to its most nimble actor: the President. The powers Congress delegates to the President are vast and varied, and often sacrifice procedural requirements in favor of expediency. Most scholars and policymakers have come to terms with this tradeoff, assuming that the need to respond quickly is outweighed by any loss of accountability. This Article challenges this long-standing assumption and is skeptical of the zero-sum framework that suggests accountability and expediency cannot coexist in statutory emergency delegations. Specifically, it develops an Executive Delegations Matrix to better evaluate the different delegation options, demonstrating that accountability and expediency need not be mutually exclusive. This Article then uses emergency energy powers to test the viability of the factors favoring unilateral delegations, ultimately finding these factors unpersuasive in the energy-emergency context. Instead of the common knee-jerk reaction to unilateral presidential control over emergencies, this Article finds that Congress can often cultivate a more balanced decision-making framework by providing a greater role for expert agencies. By challenging the assumptions underlying unilateral presidential delegations for energy emergencies, this Article provides a new framework for assessing the world of unilateral presidential delegations more broadly.

Clearly Suicidal and Not Talking -- We Need Labs and an EKG... -- Naked and Afraid -- Take a Chill Pill -- Compassionate Restraint in the ED -- The SAFE-T Wasn't On -- Risky Business -- Danger in the Mirror -- No License to Kill -- "Patient Is "Out of Control!" -- Two for the Price of One -- "My Neighbors are Harassing Me" -- The Fatigued IT Worker -- An Energetic College Student -- A Different Type of ABCs -- The Deadly D's of the Elderly -- Spiraling Out of Control -- Things are Not Always What They Seem -- Just Another Case of Gastro -- The Refeeding Dilemma -- "Everything Hurts and I'm Weak, Doc" -- Helping the Homeless in the Emergency Department: Historical Perspectives and -- Approaches to Care -- Suicidal Ideation with Vague and Contradicting History -- Down on the Farm -- You're Staying, Whether You Like It or Not -- Sick From Waiting -- Down With Disease Access to Mental Health Care -- I Would Like to Phone a Friend -- Right Into the Danger Zone.

To protect human rights during emergencies (eg, disasters, wars) requires having a free government capable of handling emergencies & the resources to successfully do so. For the American Civil Liberties Union, which has increasingly come to define the public's understanding of rights, a right is not a right unless it can be carried to an extreme & used irresponsibly. A better liberal theory, with instruction from Niccolo Machiavelli, will seek to combine interest in security with assertion of rights. Adapted from the source document.