Hurried Psychiatric Labelling: A Preventable Medical Error in an Emergency Department
Journal Title: Hospital Practices and Research - Year 2019, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
Because societies today are industrialized, physical and psychiatric problems have increased significantly. Simple medical approaches are no longer sufficient for managing patients. This is quite obvious in an overcrowded emergency department. Moral and legal aspects of patient management should also be considered. Emergency management is like a double-edged sword. Physicians encounter both somatic and psychiatric presentations simultaneously. In such situations, decision-making can be difficult.1,2 Immediately marking a patient as a histrionic or conversion case is a wrong approach that is currently seen in some emergency departments.
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