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The Thin Line Between Care And Control
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A conservator refuses to sign consent for a pregnancy termination because of personal religious beliefs, so a client’s medical decision gets pushed into probate court. That’s where we start, because it captures the core tension we keep running into as fiduciaries and clinicians: the line between protection and control is thin, and the stakes are painfully human.
From there, we unpack a case that forces the hardest question in mental health caregiving and medical ethics: what does capacity look like when someone is floridly psychotic and refusing cancer diagnostics and…
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