title: Balancing practice policies with patient needs.
authors.affiliation: Assistant professor of psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, and the director of consult and liaison psychiatry in the Floating Hospital for Children.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Goepfert
authors.affiliation: Fourth-year student in medicine and public health at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston.
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kroener
mesh_terms: D003419:Crisis Intervention / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000517:prevention & control; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000941:ethics* / Q000517:prevention & control*