How do you approach patient requests for long-term disability for major depressive disorder?
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What is your approach when a patient declines recommended treatment for major depressive disorder but requests disability documentation for it?
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Psychiatry · RK Psychiatry Associates, LLC
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There is the medical side to this question and the documentation. Incidentally, oftentimes if there is a forensic issue to the disability, it is very difficult for the disability to be resolved until the forensic piece has been resolved. Have you and the patient determined that disability is clearly...
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Psychiatry · Thapar Renu K Office
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I prefer not to get involved in disability determination, as oftentimes a née patient just comes to us for a letter.
In my patients that I have treated for a while needs a letter, I try getting an accommodation before signing a letter for long-term disability.
I discourage disability as work has man...
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