HLTHAGE 3N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Family Medicine, Personality Disorder, Amnesia
17 Oct 2018
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Comprehensive - getting a holistic understanding of the person"s history. Accuracy & fit - never black and white; fluctuation of emotions/symptoms makes. Time - time-intensive it difficult to pin someone to one label. Physicians struggle with revealing the diagnosis to the patient and/or the family. Diagnosis may do more harm than good. May speak about it, give information, but not directly give a diagnosis. Easier to give diagnosis if the clinician had resources to give the patient. A set clinical pathway in terms of treatment, maintenance, and steps to take for recovery/remission. Tricker to give diagnosis when treatment plan is not clear. Family physician or psychiatrist may give the formal diagnosis, but many people are involved in the conversation (including the patient) Family, friends, and other support networks are made aware of the diagnosis, and work with the patient. Clinicians must balance stigma in the conversation.
