Relationship-centered care and the patient-physician relationship

Relationship-centered Care and the Patient-Physician Relationship

I recently observed a third-year medicine resident interview a 77-year-old established clinic patient with diabetes, hypertension, and mild degenerative joint disease, all well controlled. For the first 19 minutes, of a visit scheduled for 20, the patient focused on reconfirming that her symptoms, unchanged for months, were related to her diagnoses. She also talked animatedly about her granddau...

Producing Patient-centered Health Care: Patient Perspectives about Health and Illness and the Physician/Patient Relationship.

Preparing the books to read every day is enjoyable for many people. However, there are still many people who also don't like reading. This is a problem. But, when you can support others to start reading, it will be better. One of the books that can be recommended for new readers is producing patient centered health care patient perspectives about health and illness and the physician patient rel...

Managed care and the physician/patient relationship.

The Patient-physician Relationship

DURING THE 1980S, RENEWED interest in the patientphysician relationship and the availability of more sophisticated audio and video technology allowed investigators to explore medical discourse in unprecedented detail. One of the most frequently quoted studies from this period (Beckman and Frankel) suggested that patients, asked to describe their concerns by a physician, were most often redirect...

Managed care and the geriatric patient-physician relationship.

As managed care proliferates in the United States and other countries, its structure has patterned changes in patient-doctor relationships, including those between older patients and their physicians. The physician as gatekeeper now limits the access of the patient to information and services. Patient trust in the physician, essential to an effective patient-doctor relationship, will be damaged...