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)

DUI

D010815 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0016791

Previous indexing

Clinical Competence (1975-1980); Mental Disorders (1966-1980); Physicians (1966-1980); specific mental disorder

History note

81

Public note

81