'The patient always lies.'
A major problem with the healthcare system is that patients lie to their doctor.
Most patients will even privately admit that they lied when they were informing their doctors about their issues. Their reasons for doing this often aren't very good:
A major problem with the healthcare system is that patients lie to their doctor.
Most patients will even privately admit that they lied when they were informing their doctors about their issues. Their reasons for doing this often aren't very good:
Patients want to avoid getting lectured, they don't want their doctor to call them fat or tell them their snacking habits are unhealthy. They're afraid the doctor will judge them or think they're stupid or immoral, and they don't want the doctor to tell their family.
But because people want to preserve their privacy even in the private setting of a doctor's office, they end up making doctors' jobs harder.
They make it harder to diagnose conditions and to prescribe the right drugs.
They make it harder to diagnose conditions and to prescribe the right drugs.
People insist they can't have STDs because they don't want the doctor to know they're having sex.
People don't disclose drug habits.
People lie about exposures they might've had at home because they don't want to appear disheveled and poor.
People don't disclose drug habits.
People lie about exposures they might've had at home because they don't want to appear disheveled and poor.
Whatever the reasons, it's bad!
But doctors have a role to play here. Even offering a simple reassurance might go a long way to getting a patient to fess up to the real causes of their problems.
Source: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
But doctors have a role to play here. Even offering a simple reassurance might go a long way to getting a patient to fess up to the real causes of their problems.
Source: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
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