GP speaks of distress over patient’s angry demand she change diagnosis made 13 years earlier
The patient made an appointment to berate the GP over a 'false' mental health diagnosis.
A GP has ended up before a tribunal over a woman’s mental health diagnosis she had made 13 years earlier.
In a case that highlights the pressures doctors can face when asked to amend records, the GP told the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal how she was put under immense pressure from the start of the consultation with the patient in November 2020.
The patient had made the appointment specifically to confront the GP over the diagnosis and her referral to a psychiatrist back in 2007.
The patient claimed the diagnosis, which has not been specified by the tribunal, had been used against her in family law and child support proceeding, with the result that her daughters no longer spoke to her.
