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Jacinta Tan on anorexia nervosa and the mind

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Do You Have an Eating Disorder?

Early on in your training, you started to noticed something that made you curious. You wanted to know what these patients understood about their mental illness. How did you go about exploring this further? To be pointed towards professor tony hope, a psychiatrist, but also the professor of medical ethics. And he said, well, i don't have a question about insight. I have this question on the shelf. We have no one to research for us,. whether people with an erinavosa have capacity, ty, the ability, to make decisions whether to accept or refuse the treatment they're being offered. Which, for eating disorders, it's food. Refusing food is far more immotive than

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