
Some patients are intractably and maybe even irredeemably ill. What should be done for them?
Dr Morrison has been in the private practice of general and forensic psychiatry for over 35 years. Active in the American Psychiatric Association at both national and local levels, she is past president of Washington Psychiatric Society.
Some patients are intractably and maybe even irredeemably ill. What should be done for them?
Patients with terminal illnesses may choose to refuse treatment or even hasten their own deaths, but is that the same thing as suicide?