Abstract
Hurried Psychiatric Labelling: A Preventable Medical Error in an Emergency Department
Highlights
Recent forensic medicine cases have explained some clues; life-threatening conditions that had not been given much attention by the physician; some were even considered as psychiatric cases
This is more important when an organic problem is hiding behind a psychiatric presentation and could be ignored or even mismanaged
Normal adaptive responses to stress are due to the sympathetic nervous system, adrenal or cortisol response; an abnormal or improper psychiatric response may indicate organic problems rather than a purely psychiatric disorder.[3]
Summary
Recent forensic medicine cases have explained some clues; life-threatening conditions that had not been given much attention by the physician; some were even considered as psychiatric cases. This is more important when an organic problem is hiding behind a psychiatric presentation (pseudo-psychiatric emergencies) and could be ignored or even mismanaged.
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