Physician Impairment

1. Irritability, irresponsibility and inaccessibility may be signs that a physician is suffering from an addiction.

True

False

2. A physician that is noted to use excessive amounts of narcotics with unwitnessed wasting or excessive spillage/breakage during drug procedures may be suffering from an addiction.

True

False

3. Other indicators indicators of a possible impaired physician include:

Isolation

Disheveled appearance

Tremors

Dilated or constricted pupils

All of the above

4. Physicians have a greater rate of suicide that the general population.

True

False

5. What is the most common type of physician impairment

Over worked

Substance abuse

Over eating

Financial abuse