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Possibly guilt is induced in medical personnel by the patient presenting with some obvious “wounds” as a result of her multiple serious suicide attempts. While these are mostly self-inflicted some leave obvious defects that are “complications” of medical care. Such evidences of medical “failure” may increase physicians’ feelings of being reproached and incite fears of malpractice or other litigation.  Most professionals of any experience are extremely frustrated, and are aware of the anger mobilized by the patient’s behavior, and are “doing their best” to try to develop some plan that might work. Some suggestions for management contain a good deal of poorly contained hostility.  \subsection{Work \subsection{textbf{Work  points: } }}  Can one person and agency be selected to manage the patient?  If so how can all the other inappropriate uses of the “system” be controlled and minimized? 

Professionals ask would it not be cheaper to institutionalize the patient?  \subsection{References:} \subsection{\textbf{}References}---(in the original CCCIR)  1.Blaska, B. (1990) Hospital and Community Psychiatry 41:993-998.