Prolonged disability from job-related injury.
Workers who do not recover as expected from job-related injuries are frequently disabled not by organic complications of their injuries but by a problem that the patient may not acknowledge and the physician may not recognize and deal with. The family physician should be skilled in detecting nonorganic causes of disability and in intervening appropriately to maintain a therapeutic relationship between the patient and the health care providers.
Goodwin
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Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland.
D000062:Accidents, Occupational; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012803:Sick Role; D014942:Workers' Compensation; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000191:economics / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation