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"I don't have migraines, but three private clinics say I do, and offered me medication" "I don't have chronic pain, but three private clinics say I do, and off
by bpodgursky 3y ago
"I don't have migraines, but three private clinics say I do, and offered me medication"
"I don't have chronic pain, but three private clinics say I do, and offered me medication
Yes, medicine does not have any real way to read thoughts right now, and medicine instead has to trust patients to give a reasonably accurate description of their own mental state. Really hard-hitting journalism, there.
- kerowak 3y agoThe criticism is that the claims of the patient are not adequately verified by the prescribing doctor. Some people have to undergo a lengthy doctor-administered screening process to receive an ADHD diagnosis. Others fill out a straightforward questionnaire. To use your example, you'd hope that a doctor would verify that a patient actually had something wrong with them before, say, prescribing them something addictive like painkillers.
- bpodgursky 3y agoWhat would more hoops possibly accomplish other than denying care to real patients through attrition and exhaustion? It's trivial for a person to lie in an interview as easily as on a questionaire.