Case: Confidentiality and Truth-telling Advanced Case

Case: Confidentiality and Truth-telling Advanced Case

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Team: Clinical Ethics in Emergency Medicine
Posted on August 20, 2015

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Case: Confidentiality and Truth-telling Advanced Case

Team: Clinical Ethics in Emergency Medicine

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Description


Schizophrenic (off his  medication) present saying that he hears voices telling him to stab his neighbor. Does not want to do so and asks to be put back on his medication. Does not want to come in to hospital. Psychiatry sees and says he can go back on meds – they have some concerns but feel he does not meet criteria for involuntary admission.