2023年10月20日 · Nearly 90% of human-trafficking victims have contact with a health professional while being trafficked. Learn to better identify and help these patients.

2021年2月12日 · Medical child abuse (MCA) is a rare but potentially deadly variant of child maltreatment. MCA results in unnecessary health care for a child because of a caregiver's exaggeration, fabrication, or induction of physical and/or psychological symptoms of illness.

2018年8月20日 · Medical child abuse, known by many different names, including the often-misunderstood Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP), involves a young person receiving unneeded or harmful care...

Patient abuse or patient neglect is any action or failure to act which causes unreasonable suffering, misery or harm to the patient. [1] Elder abuse is classified as patient abuse of those older than 60 and forms a large proportion of patient abuse. [2] Abuse includes physically striking or sexually assaulting a patient.

The Division of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse works to investigate and prosecute those who would defraud taxpayers of millions of dollars and divert scarce health care resources from the needy.

To protect patients’ well-being, physicians individually should: legal requirements for reporting violence or abuse. Consider abuse as a possible factor in the presentation of medical complaints. Routinely inquire about physical, sexual, and psychological abuse as part of the medical history.

2020年2月1日 · Medical child abuse and medical neglect are part of a spectrum of conditions that can lead to significant morbidity and mortality in children. Recognition of these forms of child maltreatment is crucial to preventing harm.

Medical Professionals Abuse Lawyers: Holding Healthcare Providers and Doctors Accountable for Sexual Abuse Seeing a doctor or medical professional should never result in a negative experience, but for some patients, an exam can develop into abuse by a trusted provider.

2024年6月18日 · Medical child abuse (MCA) refers to a child receiving unnecessary and harmful or potentially harmful medical care due to a caregiver's overt actions including exaggeration of symptoms, lying about the history or simulating physical findings (fabrication), or intentionally inducing illness in their child [1].

2019年1月17日 · Medical child abuse (MCA) is defined as a child receiving unnecessary and harmful or potentially harmful medical care at the instigation of a caretaker.