(December 23, 2018 at 8:40 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: In "SOAP" charting (the format in which a History and Physical is done),
subjective
objective
assessment
plan
the patient's complaint goes under "subjective" ... (and while some notes may include an assessment of "honesty" if there is some sort of "chronic" nature of the complaints, or perhaps drug-seeking is suspected, the complaint is taken at face-value.
*Nods*
Yes, I understand this.
However my question is: Does the Doctor have a means/method to determin IF said patient's reporting of pain is
A) Something they've made up/Not real/Only in their mind.
OR
B) An actual, physical event.