[Organization of care : specialized psychiatric clinic or general psychiatric clinic ? A debate between Louis Guérette and Jean-Pierre Rodriguez.].

: The author reports on the opinions of doctors Louis Guerette and Jean-Pierre Rodriguez, both psychiatrists - one working at the Pavillon Notre-Dame of the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montreal (CHUM) - the other at the Pavillon Albert-Prevost (PAP) of the Hopital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal, - on the place of specialized psychiatric clinics in the organization of care in psychiatry. Dr Guerette who practices general psychiatry thinks specialized clinics are not an appropriate mode of care delivery. Dr Rodriguez, answering to Dr Guerette's arguments, presents the organizational system of specialized clinics put in place at the PAP. The questions raised by the author and the psychiatrists' answers are reported. Finally, the author, a resident doctor in psychiatry, presents his own personal opinion on the issue.