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Disability evaluation: a fledgling science?

Disability evaluation: a fledgling science? Although medicine and law often operate from incompatible bases, physicians must occasionally work with lawyers and in the process reconcile medicine to the legal world. Nowhere is this more evident than in disability evaluation. Indeed, explains Talmage G. Hiebert, PhD, MD, medical director of the American Disability Evaluation Research Institute (ADERI) and the National Association of Disability Evaluating Physicians (NADEP), Ann Arbor, Mich, while disability is a legal term, each year American physicians receive hundreds of thousands of requests to determine it. In fact, almost every physician at some point in his career will be called on to do so. But physician misunderstanding of disability evaluation is rampant, say Hiebert and others, and this in turn invites accusations of bias, lackeyism, and malpractice. Such misunderstanding has been plaguing groups like the American Academy of Compensation Medicine (AACM), the American Academy of Occupational Medicine, and the American Occupational Medicine Association for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

Disability evaluation: a fledgling science?

JAMA , Volume 250 (7) – Aug 19, 1983

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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
ISSN
0098-7484
eISSN
1538-3598
DOI
10.1001/jama.1983.03340070005003
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Abstract

Although medicine and law often operate from incompatible bases, physicians must occasionally work with lawyers and in the process reconcile medicine to the legal world. Nowhere is this more evident than in disability evaluation. Indeed, explains Talmage G. Hiebert, PhD, MD, medical director of the American Disability Evaluation Research Institute (ADERI) and the National Association of Disability Evaluating Physicians (NADEP), Ann Arbor, Mich, while disability is a legal term, each year American physicians receive hundreds of thousands of requests to determine it. In fact, almost every physician at some point in his career will be called on to do so. But physician misunderstanding of disability evaluation is rampant, say Hiebert and others, and this in turn invites accusations of bias, lackeyism, and malpractice. Such misunderstanding has been plaguing groups like the American Academy of Compensation Medicine (AACM), the American Academy of Occupational Medicine, and the American Occupational Medicine Association for

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JAMAAmerican Medical Association

Published: Aug 19, 1983

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