title: Capacity Decisions in the General Hospital: When Can You Refuse to Follow a Person's Wishes?
abstract: LESSONS LEARNED AT THE INTERFACE OF MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY: The Psychiatric Consultation Service at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) sees medical and surgical inpatients with comorbid psychiatric symptoms and conditions. Such consultations require the integration of medical and psychiatric knowledge. During their thrice-weekly rounds, Dr. Huffman and Dr. Stern discuss the diagnosis and management of conditions confronted. These discussions have given rise to rounds reports that will prove useful for clinicians practicing at the interface of medicine and psychiatry.
authors.affiliation: Dr. Huffman is Chief Resident at MGH and a Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Stern is Chief of the Psychiatric Consultation Service at MGH and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
authors.forename: Jeff C.
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Huffman
authors.forename: Theodore A.
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Stern