Ethics, Malingering, and a lie-detector at the bedside.
A psychiatric consultation is presented in which the physician uses a cardiac monitor in the manner of a lie-detector. Ethical analysis of a clinician's duties in cases of suspected malingering addresses both the standard of informed consent necessary for such assessments and the potential forensic consequences of unanticipated clinical findings.
Candilis
P J
PJ
Office of Ethics, Law and Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, USA.
D017007:Duty to Warn; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D005260:Female; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D007298:Insanity Defense; D008014:Lie Detection / Q000523:psychology*; D008306:Malingering / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000523:psychology