How Should Clinicians Execute Critical Force Interventions With Compassion, Not Just Harm Minimization, as a Clinical and Ethical Goal?

and compassion. https://t.co/ZxS2gSW5fR

Each variable contributes to a patient’s decision-making processes, including decisions regarding forced care. For example, patients’ race and gender provide a potential starting point for understanding their current behavior: https://t.co/45Sf7jkfBg

Do no (compassionate) harm: Robert L. Trestman, PhD, MD and Kishore Nagaraja, MD examine a case of a patient where force may be justified to save her life: https://t.co/JCTZva66yG

As reported in one significant study, showing “respect for you, your family, and those important to you”—ie, cultural sensitivity—was found to be the most important feature of compassion expressed by both patients and physicians: https://t.co/gHH8bryHYB