compassion is central to the purpose of medicine and the care of patients and their families. compassionate healthcare begins with compassionate people, but cannot be consistently provided without systemic changes that enable clinicians and staff to collaborate and to care. we propose seven essential commitments to foster more compassionate healthcare organizations and systems: a commitment to ...

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...

BACKGROUND Substantial research demonstrates the importance of online health communities (OHCs) for patient empowerment, although the impact on the patient-physician relationship is understudied. Patient empowerment also occurs in relationship with the physician, but studies of OHCs mostly disregard this. The question also remains about the nature and consequences of this empowerment, as it mig...

Objective: To ascertain whether the quality of physician-patient communication makes a significant difference to patient health outcomes. Data sources: The MEDLINE database was searched for articles published from 1983 to 1993 using "physician-patient relations" as the primary medical subject heading. Several bibliographies and conference proceedings were also reviewed. Study selection: Randomi...

OBJECTIVE To ascertain whether the quality of physician-patient communication makes a significant difference to patient health outcomes. DATA SOURCES The MEDLINE database was searched for articles published from 1983 to 1993 using "physician-patient relations" as the primary medical subject heading. Several bibliographies and conference proceedings were also reviewed. STUDY SELECTION Random...

a case which is observed in the judicial decisions on the patients’ rights is a physician who causes the patient’s death upon his treatment. in a case, the physician doing positional anesthesia observes that the patient is shocked and dies and considering what has been mentioned in the decisions issued by the supreme court, the accused is sentenced to the payment of one complete blood money to ...