An Unrecognized Danger For Patients and Physicians

Physicians: reading the linked article on Borderline Personality Disorder may save your career.

During my professional work as a health care attorney, representing physicians about whom there had been complaints to the state Medical Board (and occasionally, to the police) I observed a disturbing pattern.A number of the complaints about physicians' behavior came from patients who clinically seemed to have "Borderline Personality Disorder."  These were generally new patients to the affected physicians who noticed nothing unusual in their interactions with the patients who subsequently complained, but the results were serious and had serious professional, legal and financial consequences.  Physicians and other health care professionals should read this National Institute of Mental Health information guide.

This information may save your professional career and help you to better care for people with borderline personalities.