Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast

Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast


#71 Capacity Part 2, Voluntarism & Difficult Scenarios: At the Bedside Segment

July 22, 2020

What goes into decision making? What are the invisible tugs that may keep patients from acting in line with their values? Why isn't it part of the formal capacity assessment?


Show notes, Transcript and References: https://www.coreimpodcast.com/2020/07/22/capacity-2-0-and-voluntarism/


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Time Stamps:



  • 2:57 Defining voluntarism
  • 5:36 Four elements that influence voluntarism
  • 10:26 How do you incorporate voluntarism into the capacity assessment?
  • 16:11 Discussions with uncooperative patients
  • 19:14 Protecting unrepresented patients
  • 21:30 Clinician perspective
  • 25:06 Moral distress

Tags: medical humanities, ethics, psychiatry, IM Core, CoreIM