Thursday, September 14, 2017

Could Doctors be Sued by Omitting the Psychological/Emotional Component of Chronic Maladies, especially Pain, in Diagnosis/Treatment?

It is well know that Emotional Stress causes or aggravates Physical Symptoms

Furthermore, Personality, Belief Systems, Cultures, etc. also have an effect on Physical Symptom Management.




Doctors know this and most choose to ignore this and just treat the symptoms, usually with medication.  "Band-Aid Fixes"

So, Could Doctors be sued by omitting the Psychological/Emotional (Mind-Body) Component of Chronic Conditions, especially Chronic Pain?  Could this be viewed as Malpractice?

Please see references below.

Mistakes of Commission or Omission, What is the Difference?

Omission-Related Malpractice Claims and the Limits of Defensive Medicine

Medical Malpractice: Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose

Cognitive errors in medicine: The common errors

Laws governing holistic healing: some basics

Medical Negligence Incompetence and Fraud 

 

Disclaimer - Article is for information only and is not advice of any kind, especially not medical/legal advice.

 

 

 

 

5 comments:

  1. Since every illness has an emotiional component or response I personally feel it is the least of what patients should be worried about in terms of info doctors might omit. Every patient whether they present with a cold, chronic pain, cancer, any illness would have to be told this might cause you to feel anxious depressed upset etc. It would be nice off docs were sensitive to that part of illness and suffering but in my experience unfortunately most aren;t and they no longer have the time to deal with it even if they were that empathetic.

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