Relatedness to injury: There are far too many times that when treating an injured worker, I come upon serious health problems that are being ignored. The most obvious are obesity, hypertension and diabetes. Due to a variety of factors including health habits, lack of family concern and financial limitations, early signs of disease are not …
Injury: If a wealthy man were to win the Lottery, his spending behavior is unlikely to be significantly altered. He was already in touch with his material and investment needs and was deprived of neither. A sudden influx of lottery money is most often applied to the same rules and limits that he has acquired. …
Gain: “The concept of secondary gain is a frequently addressed observation as to the benefits a patient receives from an illness or injury. The term is sometimes used as an indictment of the patient. Since s/he derives gain from the physical complaint, some feel that the complaint is less important and warrants less concern. Tertiary gain …
Unmet Expectations: “He feels that surgery did not go as planned, that the outcome was poor, yet we have the surgical notes which indicate that it was a successful lumbar fusion. Why the discrepancy?” “There can be a vast difference between OBJECTIVE surgical outcome and the patient’s SUBJECTIVE (emotional) response to that outcome. From an objective …
Harm: There may be an unwritten policy to disallow “psychic” claims. The term “psychic”, by definition, means phenomena that are inexplicable by natural laws or relating to the soul or mind. Applying that term to the psychological aftermath of injury has always seemed inapplicable and inappropriate to what is clinically occurring to those in pain. …
Relatedness to injury: There are far too many times that when treating an injured worker, I come upon serious health problems …
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Injury: If a wealthy man were to win the Lottery, his spending behavior is unlikely to be significantly altered. He was already …
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Gain: “The concept of secondary gain is a frequently addressed observation as to the benefits a patient receives from …
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