Inability to earn

The physician s assessment of a patient s capacity for work takes into account the individual factors in a certain type of liver disease and thus forms the basis for determining .) unfitness for work, (2.) inability to practise the learned profession and (i.) inability to earn within the sociolegal framework of the country concerned. This involves reviewing the overall situation in a concrete manner, i.e. whether there is a workplace available that is appropriate to the patient s capacity for... 

In this connection, it cannot be overemphasized that while a particular pattern of behavior may be the cause or the consequence of a disease, the behavior, perse, cannot, as a matter of definition, be a disease. Boxing or drinking alcohol may cause diseases but are not diseases. Disability—the inability to earn a living or care for oneself—may be, or may not be, a consequence of disease, but is not a disease. 

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