The application of palliative care to intractable psychiatric disorders has been debated at least since 2010, when a journal article reported that a patient with severe anorexia nervosa died in hospice after being referred there by her psychiatrist. The New York Times published a thought-provoking article earlier this year on the same topic: whether we should
Incurable psychiatric disorders: Should we offer palliative care or medical aid in dying? originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
