Challenging a Surrogate Decision-Maker: A Case of an Incapacitated Patient Following Self-Enucleation

Rojan Varghese, MD; Kaajal Patel, DO; Heather Burke, MD; Alexis Cohen-Oram, MD; Shixie Jiang, MD; Theodore A. Stern, MD

Prim Care Companion CNS Disord 2022;24(3):21f03102

LESSONS LEARNED AT THE INTERFACE OF MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY

The Psychiatric Consultation Service at Massachusetts General Hospital sees medical and surgical inpatients with comorbid psychiatric symptoms and conditions. During their twice-weekly rounds, Dr Stern and other members of the Consultation Service discuss diagnosis and management of hospitalized patients with complex medical or surgical problems who also demonstrate psychiatric symptoms or conditions. These discussions have given rise to rounds reports that will prove useful for clinicians practicing at the interface of medicine and psychiatry.

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