Misdiagnosis Over Diagnosis

Nurses are the first to assess patients that are seeking health care services. Nurses are the Frontline Warriors who risk their own lives to provide care for others (Ungar, 2014). They are the Frontline Warriors who diagnose the care of patients to ensure doctor orders are accurate before care is practiced. A recent study estimates 12 million Americans are misdiagnose every year and 6 million results in serious outcome (Singh, Meyer & Thomas, 2013). Without effective communication and quality management protocols, misdiagnoses may cause possible harm to patients, healthcare workers, and the population. For instance, on September 24, 2014, Thomas Duncan, a man from Liberia in his early 40’s went to Texas Health

In today’s world of technology and advances in the medical system, many people are now getting care that many people in days gone by would not have gotten. With this progression more people than ever are being diagnosed and treated for Mental Health conditions. Dr. Allen Frances (2013, May 4) suggests that some people do not actually need treatment and doctors are over diagnosing. In Dr. Allen Frances (2013, May 4) video he is calling for Mental Health Care System reform.

Law enforcement interactions with the mentally ill community are increasing, due to a number of factors such as cuts on long-term psychiatric beds, improvements in treatments and the philosophy of integration (Adelman, 2003). Which leads to mentally ill people living in the community, which leads to increase crisis and police interaction because of insufficient funding. Existing community-based crisis response services are not well unified and are limited, especially in rural areas. General hospital-based emergency services can also be difficult to access because of bed reductions, and only offer treatment to those only that are seriously ill (e.g. be actively delusional or suicidal). As Eric Macnaughton states in his study BC Early

When a friend says that they are ill, say they have a cold of the flu, we immediately recognise this as a physical illness and therefore we assist them in their recovery, empathise with them and give them time to get better. However, if they were to have said that the felt run down or depressed, they wouldn’t have been given the same treatment. In most cases, people suffering from these diseases are told that their illness isn’t real, to toughen up and get over it. This blatant disregard for the health of these people leads to their death. 8 million people die from a mental illness each year, with many of these being caused by suicide. And to think that many of these people could have been saved if someone had helped them. Helped them to see that what they are feeling is real and that they can receive help for what they are going through. But how will anyone ever truly receive help if we fail to recognise what they are going

I agree the biggest issue with dealing with mental health is people are unwilling to accept or even acknowledge that they need assistance. As you stated changing the perception of receiving mental assistance is the key to increasing the amount of first responders accepting help. Changing the stigma of the strong sucks it up and the weak can’t take it, has to be implemented by people in the position of authority. Making it mandatory with first responders and even in the military that critical incident stress debriefing (CISD) should be initiated within 24-48 hour after experiences any traumatic event may reduce any long-term impact.

Patients would tell the doctor exactly what illness afflicted them and what the treatment was. The issue with self-diagnosing is that patients don’t know how to interpret the information they have. Doctors undergo years of education and training to get their degrees. Proper training enables doctors to understand the information that they have and make an informed diagnoses. When patients self-diagnose, they interrupt the doctor’s thought process and ultimately waste the doctor’s time. At Mercy Urgent Care, time is valuable and there are many patients to see. Self-diagnosing is a substantial issue at Mercy Urgent Care and many other

He recalls a disturbing cases of fraud and unethical treatment-the recent case, for example of a psychiatrist billing Medicaid for weekly sessions for a client who had died two years previously. He feels conflicted, torn between opposing the profit-driven corporate greed that drives the managed health care industry and supporting the need to screen out unethical, inefficient treatment, that at its best no harm to clients, and at its worst creates considerably more distress and fosters unhealthy dependence. On Fridays, he spend the day in the clinic on the first floor. David, specialty is in crisis intervention and trauma, and therefore, I select cases in which have clear precipitating events that have led to the presenting symptoms. His treatment is crisis-orientated and focused on reducing the immediate symptoms of the trauma. The deeper work may come later, but for now he helps clients regain their equilibrium after a particularly traumatizing life event. David has a lot on his plate and is willing to try is best to provide the correct treatment options for that

Furthermore, I would like to describe various therapies and the ways in which they are useful. To stabilize the individual and help them to achieve mastery over the situation crisis intervention is used (Caplan 1964). Techniques in crisis intervention includes: to provide an understanding that the crisis and psychological responses are linked, mobilizing social support, ventilation of feelings, exploration and promotion of alternative coping styles, promoting and planning for future difficulties. Immediate intervention should also address distorted perceptions of what has happened, aim to alleviate feelings to guilt and self-blame (Mezey 1997) and address immediate help for safety and medical attention

Misdiagnoses “We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it,” (Calahan, 43) says Susannah Cahalan, the author of “Brain on Fire.” It was after she spent a month of madness in the hospital that Susannah had the ability to state this first hand from her own experiences, for she was a young woman with a severe mental illness who suffered from countless detrimental misdiagnoses. Susannah’s case is just one fatal account of a misdiagnosis. Unfortunately, many patients around the world die everyday due to poor diagnoses. For these reasons, doctors should spend time properly diagnosing patients who have an illness because if patients are not properly diagnosed, it can cause destruction of

As a child, I felt like a mutant with a horrible disease. I had a medical condition that no doctor could properly diagnose. I went to four different doctors and two specialists, yet not one could give me a straight forward answer as to why I feeling so horrible. Not only was I concerned, but so was my mother. At the age of five, I started what felt like countless tests to try to determine what was causing me to be in so much pain and be so nauseated that I would sleep on the bathroom.

There are many children and adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and some adolescents have substance use disorders. Of many substances, besides alcohol, cocaine is a common use among the human population. However, there are strong possibilities that psychiatric doctors or counselors can misdiagnose ADHD and cocaine use disorders based on the DSM-V. Some doctors misdiagnose children and adolescents with ADHD leaving the nation either over diagnosing youth with ADHD which lead to high amounts of medication and some doctors misdiagnose those with substance use disorders such as cocaine use with ADHD, and some are diagnosed with comorbidity and would need more therapeutic treatment and prescribed medication. These incidents

Life can be one of the most beautiful things one could ever experience, and also the ugliest. Sometimes life can, and will, throw a curveball and depending on the person it may feel like it is way more than one could handle. A person may be in extreme distress for a number of reasons; school, work, family, a combination of the three or maybe two. People suffering a mental health crisis have a new, welcoming and calming place that they can now contact for immediate treatment and support.

My experience in mental health clinical was very different from any other clinical I had before. In a mental health clinical setting, I am not only treating client’s mental illnesses, I am also treating their medical problems such as COPD, diabetes, chronic renal failure, etc. Therefore, it is important to prepare for the unexpected events. In this mental health clinical, I learned that the importance of checking on my clients and making sure that they are doing fine by performing a quick head-to toes assessment at the beginning of my shift. I had also learned that client’s mental health illness had a huge impact on their current medical illness.

In this assignment I shall be defining the topic surrounding crisis throughout the field of mental health. I will be attempting to do this by using a various range of literature and theories of that can help us create a greater understanding and knowledge base of what a crisis is, why it occurs and how we can potentially prevent a crisis from occurring. I shall then be discussing how I would engage those individuals that are in crisis, exploring the engagement process and showing the skills that are necessary to provide support to the person in crisis. I will then be discussing what challenges we meet as both professionals and the individual that is in crisis and what tools and strategies are placed in order to conquer these

“We need to learn how to help ourselves and help the doctor help us.” This quote is from the American Trauma Society’s website where they make sure the physical aspect after a traumatic event is tended to. Unfortunately being a victim of a traumatic event scars the injured party deeper than people sometimes are able to realize. Heather Abbott, a bomb victim from the Boston bombing on April 15th was seriously injured including about 120 others (Baltimore News Journal). The effects from not only the bombing but other destructive happenings leave many with emotional turmoil. There are organizations where they are able to get help and try to recover the best of their ability. Victims need to make sure they heal emotionally, and that is where