Decisions about where and to whose professional stewardship patients are admitted are influenced by federal policies of which physicians might not be aware.
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Refusals of psychotropic medication by detained criminal defendants raise conflicting dual loyalties for psychiatrists between the duty to treat a patient and the duty to protect society from that patient.