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What else can I help you with?
Should medications be prescribed to psychopaths?
Only a physician/psychiatrist can make a diagnosis, and only doctors can decide whether a patient needs medicine. Every patient is evaluated. There is no "one size fits all".
How do you know if you have PID?
You will need to be evaluated by a physician to determine if you have PID.
If a physician decides to terminate his care of a patient the physician must?
Send the patient a certified letter
When does a physician-patient relationship begin?
A physician-patient relationship typically begins when a patient seeks medical advice or treatment from a physician, and the physician agrees to provide care. This relationship is based on mutual consent and the expectation of confidentiality, trust, and professionalism between the two parties.
What is the word used to describe a physician's approach to managing the patient's health problem?
Bedside manner is the physician's approach to the patient; practice (and diagnosis, on some level) is the physician's approach to the patient's problem. Malpractice is when the physician's approach is improper.
How is a patient's weight evaluated in cases of malnutrition?
Comparing a patient's weight to standardized charts.
When a patient sues a physician the patient is called what?
plaintiff
What time does a contract between a physician and patient terminated?
A patient, who chooses to see a physician voluntarily, may terminate his/her relationship with the physician at any time. A physician may terminate with a patient, but usually has to provide at least 30 days notice, in order to allow the patient to find another physician, and to ensure no interruption in the patient's needed prescriptions and treatments. Exceptions to this may occur - such as when the patient has threatened the physician, or has been incarcerated, or has been involuntarily committed, or has abused medications inconsistent with physician's prescription instructions, etc.
Can a physician bill a patient who has medicare and Texas medicaid?
Yes, if the physician accepted the individual as a private-pay patient.
What must be evaluated during each PRP patient encounter?
Patient's reliability to perform his/her duties
How do you treat hallucinations in a dementia patient?
That is an issue that would vary with individuals. The physician on the spot would be the best person to determine treatment. It is quite possible that nothing can be done. Dementia, by its very nature, involves certain departures from reality.
Who was the Greek physician practicing in Rome who was one of the first to distinguish between delusions and hallucinations?
It was Aesclepiades.
