What is it about?
There are many ethical issues that come up for both primary care doctors and psychiatrists who are managing patients with depression. This article explores some of those issues via providing background on depressive illness and allowing the reader to work through case examples.
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Why is it important?
It is critically important to consider ethical considerations that might at first be less apparent when managing patients with depressive illness.
Perspectives
Writing this article was extremely gratifying and thought provoking as it enabled me to mesh my legal and medical backgrounds in tackling an issue relevant to the field of psychiatry, in which I am training. I hope that this article allows readers to think about heretofore unexamined ethical issues that may come up when evaluating and treating patients with depressive illness.
Alissa Rogol
Stanford University
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This page is a summary of: Ethical Issues in the Evaluation and Treatment of Depression, FOCUS The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry, April 2020, American Psychiatric Association,
DOI: 10.1176/appi.focus.20200006.
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