ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Published Online: 1 May 1998
Page Count: 4

Ethics, Malingering, and a Lie-Detector at the Bedside
Candilis, PJ
Associate Director, Office of Ethics, formerly Fellow, Law and Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, MA

Abstract

A psychiatric consultation is presented in which the physician uses a cardiac monitor in the manner of a lie-detector. Ethical analysis of a clinician's duties in cases of suspected malingering addresses both the standard of informed consent necessary for such assessments and the potential forensic consequences of unanticipated clinical findings.

Keywords:
forensic science, forensic psychiatry, ethics, malingering, lie detector

Paper ID: JFS16189J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS16189J
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