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Psychiatric kibitzing

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.8.764

Foreword from Dr. Sharfstein: In this era of managed care, utilization review, and concerns about costs, a clinician-reviewer who knows little about a case may make a decision that profoundly affects the course of a patient's treatment. Although Dr. Houghton's timely essay does not involve a managed care or utilization reviewer, it serves to remind us about the dangers inherent in criticizing the work and the judgment of other clinicians.

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