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Partnership Vs Partnership Model

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In today’s world with the institutional setting of hospitals and private practices, the relationship between doctors and patients has morphed into one that no single relationship model as described in the text can perfectly encompass. The age old concept/belief that “physicians are selfless individuals who are doing everything in their power to benefit their patients and patients by contrast are dependent individuals with an obligation to trust physicians” (DeGrazia, Mappes, Brand-Ballard - 59) no longer holds true due to patients experience and the availability of information on malpractice and violations of trust by people in the systems that are supposed to foster the well-being and safety of patients.
I believe a combination of the partnership/friendship …show more content…

As described from the text; a “friendship for the patient should consist above all in a desire to give effective technical help …by assuming the interest of another….” and as for the partners model, the model stresses that “patients and physicians are partners in the pursuit of shared values …in which the physician helps the patient help himself.” ((DeGrazia, Mappes, Brand-Ballard – 75/76). The partnership model I believe when incorporated right with the understanding that the physician is the more knowledgeable one and with a clearly defined goal that both parties understand and agree to can be the best for the patient and lead to a working model that is the most practical(with certain exceptions i.e. trauma, anesthesia, pediatrics etc.). In terms of the friendship model, the respect and understanding that one gets from a physician that you believes “loves” and cares for your overall well-being comes with a certain modicum of trust that you would give to a genuine friend that you know has the best for you at …show more content…

The friendship and partnership models tend to overlap from my perspective in order to be the most practical, by this I mean that by the patient actively participating and feeling like their feedback is considered and applied in the treatment where applicable and by viewing their interaction with the physician as “limited, special-purpose friend” will take away the feeling of hopelessness and ensure a sense of self – determination and respect instead of focusing on “care” as believed by the physician. Especially in this day and age wherein some PPO plans actually require a PCP to refer you to visit a specialist or the visit won’t be covered a unique and hybrid relationship as to wherein I can tell my physician about aspects about my family’s heath (fertility) that has nothing to do with his care of me as our problem is more so on my wife’s side requires my physician to take my input into consideration, respect my privacy without poking too deep and make suggestions and learn from my experience for his other patients and gladly write a referral. Such a dynamic relationship will require a physician to probe or question me in this situation to a point that I won’t feel comfortable a paternalistic model. A

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