Ownership, responsibility and hospital care: lessons for the consultation psychiatrist

General Hospital Psychiatry
Nicholas KontosJohn Querques

Abstract

To identify scenarios in which consultation psychiatrists encounter difficulty reconciling their clinical role with consultees' expectations and to suggest concepts that help navigate these situations. The authors' clinical experiences are used to generate and discuss three major categories of situations that require psychiatric consultants to thoughtfully adjust the breadth and depth of their obligation to patients and consultees. "Occam's razor 'dulled," "Conflation of the psychosocial with the psychiatric" and "Disposition preoccupation" are proposed as the major categories leading to conflicting patient management views between consultant and consultee. Each has, at its core, a compromise of patient ownership that blurs the boundaries of the consulting psychiatrist's responsibility. Understanding and channeling ownership back to the consultee, while appropriately gauging and embracing one's responsibility, form a two-pronged approach to clarifying one's role in consultations.

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Dec 12, 2012·Psychosomatics·Nicholas KontosJohn Querques
Aug 1, 2019·Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges·Michelle E KigerLara Varpio
Apr 25, 2017·Harvard Review of Psychiatry·Justin A ChenScott N Wilson

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