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Descriptor English: Physician Impairment
Descriptor Spanish: Inhabilitación Médica
Descriptor incapacidad médica
Scope note: Incapacidad del médico para practicar la medicina con razonable habilidad y seguridad para el paciente, por circunstancias del propio médico. Son causas frecuentes el consumo de alcohol o drogas, las enfermedades mentales o físicas y la senilidad.
Descriptor Portuguese: Inabilitação do Médico
Descriptor French: Incapacité à exercer la médecine
Entry term(s): Impairment, Physician
Impairments, Physician
Physician Impairments
Tree number(s): I01.880.604.583.524.528.500
N03.706.535.606.528.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010815
Scope note: The physician's inability to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to the patient due to the physician's disability. Common causes include alcohol and drug abuse, mental illness, physical disability, and senility.
Annotation: "inability to practice medicine with reasonable skill & safety to patient"; the causes may include alcohol & drug abuse, ment disord, phys disability, senility; coord IM with specific impairment (IM) + specialty if pertinent (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
Previous Indexing: Clinical Competence (1975-1980)
Mental Disorders (1966-1980)
Physicians (1966-1980)
specific mental disorder
Public MeSH Note: 81
History Note: 81
DeCS ID: 11249
Unique ID: D010815
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1981/01/01
Date of Entry: 1980/05/13
Revision Date: 1992/05/18
Physician Impairment - Preferred
Concept UI M0016791
Scope note The physician's inability to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to the patient due to the physician's disability. Common causes include alcohol and drug abuse, mental illness, physical disability, and senility.
Preferred term Physician Impairment
Entry term(s) Impairment, Physician
Impairments, Physician
Physician Impairments



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