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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Suicide and Diabetes
This week's case involves a patient voluntarily admitted to the locked inpatient psych unit for suicidal ideation. The patient has a long history of diabetes, but reports that she feels better when her blood sugars are in the 500+ range, and she believes that treating her diabetes makes her depression worse. Is it ethically permissible to treat her diabetes over her objections?
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