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Findings from level 4 cost-effectiveness data warrant clinical caution; leaves open need for randomized confirmation.
Harrison differentiate between somatoform pain disorder and the simple adoption of the sick role by those who are aware that it may be to their advantage to complain?Finally, a plaintiffs failure to return to work after the settlement of litigation does not neces- sarily mean that he or she is psychologically sick.It may merely mean that, with the present level of unemployment and the difference between invalidity benefit and unemployment benefit, the incentive to return to work is low.All that the person has to do is to go on complaining: with the support of a psychiatrist who diagnoses somato- form pain disorder, the prospects for the future are rosy.
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