title: [The 'medical work disability criterium'].
abstract: Legal texts regarding incapacity to work use normal language and not medical jargon. Physicians tend to ignore that, with serious consequences. For instance, 'disease' (Dutch 'ziekte') in the law text is not identical to 'diagnosis', but refers to 'illness' (in Dutch also 'ziekte') as well. Likewise, the term 'objective criteria' for determining disease/illness not only refers to the results of physical examination and of additional laboratory tests and imaging, but should also include anamnestic findings provided these are verifiable, reproducible and consistent. The law is not about diseases, but about ill people.
authors.affiliation: Academisch Ziekenhuis, afd. Psychiatrie, Leiden.
authors.forename: H G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Rooijmans
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D009426:Netherlands; D012660:Semantics; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014938:Work Capacity Evaluation