Background Physician care influences patient satisfaction. Inherent physician attributes may also affect scores. Objective To determine the relationship between physician characteristics and patient satisfaction regarding physician care and communication. Method Observational retrospective study. We examined patient satisfaction surveys from inpatient adults across 9 questions (HCAHPS: Cour...

This essay addresses the ethical implications of the physician-patient relationship from the Confucian perspective, which holds that the physician must regard the patient as a family member to treat the patient properly. It is well known that there are two primary approaches to moral authority in contemporary Western medical ethics. One is internal, and assumes that the good inherent to medicin...

Progress in medicine and changes in our society have led to an increasing number of patients with cancer and a change in the doctor-patient relationship. Patients rights are now defined in several countries by laws. The course of cancer involves numerous imaging examinations in which the radiologist is primarily involved. It is often the radiologist who discovers abnormalities and who must brea...

Doctor-patient relationship is a special kind of social. relationship where bonding is planned and carried out with the final objective of helping the patient to achieve the treatment goal. A positive therapeutic relationship encourages active participation of patient in the treatment plan, contributing to success of treatment goals and minimizing malpractice suits. The humanistic approach emph...

Healthcare delivery is being transformed by advances in e-health and by the empowered, computer-literate public. Ready to become partners in their own health and to take advantage of online processes, health portals, and physician web pages and e-mail, this new breed of consumer is slowly redefining the physician/patient relationship. Such changes can effect positive results like improved clini...

P EDIATRICIANS PLAY A key role in injury and disease prevention by providing anticipatory guidance to minimize risk in a child’s everyday environment. It is the pediatrician’s duty to raise awareness of all health risks and guide caretakers to prevent and mitigate these risks. Screening for child and adolescent access to firearms is an essential component of injury prevention. More than 128 000...

g the last two decades or so, there has been a ggle over the patient's role in medical decision aking that is often characterized as a conflict tween autonomy and health, between the values bf, the patient and the values of the physician. Seeking to curtail physician dominance, many have advocated an ideal of greater patient con( rol.',2 Others question this ideal because it fails to acknowledg...