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Ethics (Patient rights (Refusal of medical information to a patient …

- - - - *Capacity Notes
        
        If a patient is making a STUPID decision
        --> like refusing ABX for sepsis, etc.
        --> always find patients capacity FIRST
        
        How did you come to that decision?
        --> assess the 4 components of capacity
        
        *Competency Notes
        
        Competency is CONSTANT
        
        Competency is by a JUDGE and is GLOBAL
    - - Capacity High Yeilds
        
        note that psych disorders don't make you lose your capacity
        --> Classic example above shows a pschyzo man who has capacity
        
        Capacity changes from moment to moment
        --> can technically ask someone 30 minutes later and their capacity has changed
        
        ONLY exception that people LOSE CAPCITY is if they tell you they are leaving the hospital to go kill themselves
        --> you then have an OBLIGATION to commit them to psych ward
  - - - example of informed consent
        
        *Exceptions to consent
        
        example of informed consent