INDUSTRIAL DERMATOLOGIC PROBLEMS—Interrelationships Between Physician Patient Employer and Insurance Carrier

摘要

Dermatologists, employers, insurance carriers and patients often flounder in misunderstanding when dealing with industrial dermatosis. A large part of such misunderstanding stems from too limited a knowledge of compensation insurance law by physicians, employee-patients and many employers. Physicians dealing with industrial cases should not only familiarize themselves with compensation law and insurance practices, but take it upon themselves to interpret such considerations to their employee-patients and, where necessary, to their patients' employers. Present-day employer-employee relationships are frequently on a most impersonal basis, and great mutual benefit will accrue to all parties when the position and objectives of each are understood by the others and the provisions and limitations of the law are known to all. The dermatologist handling industrial cases must take the responsibility of bringing this about.