Physician Patient Interactions And The Development Of Relationships Between Physicians And Patients

There are many social factors that can impact on the Doctor Patient relationships everything from race to gender. To break it down and find five, I started with Doctors personal views he is under pressure to be ethical when he may not entirely be accepting of a person’s beliefs or sexuality. For instance a doctor may be homophobic and have a patient attend surgery asking for advice on practicing safe sex and being HIV aware. Following on from this may be a patients confidence in doctors due to race for example a person who has racist issues would not feel comfortable attending a foreign doctors surgery. To find a third I would have to say gender being a female I tend to talk easier to a female doctor, which persists problems as my female doctor only works three days a week so I put off going to see the male doctor so therefore remain ill longer. My fourth factor is age, as the doctor could be old and the patient adolescent. This would impact on different generations living different lifestyles and changing societies. “Adolescence is indeed a tempestuous period”, (Thorne, B & Lambers.1998). Finally I find language barriers a major social factor as if you can’t understand what your doctor is saying to you it has complications in treatment and there is not always a translator available.

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Going through my education, I have acquired various skills to assist me on the road to becoming a physician. Devoting hundreds of hours to volunteering and shadowing in a hospital setting has given me a basic understanding of the care and patience required by physicians. In particular, shadowing a pediatrician helped me develop the ability of observation and acute attention to detail. I was given the opportunity to participate and interact with the patients and attempt to form my own diagnosis based on the given symptoms. Having the opportunity to input my own opinion and discussing the patient’s medical history with the physician assisted me in cultivating necessary characteristics such as versatility and keen intuition

Transparency, which refers to open lines of honest communication, is a significant part of patient-doctor relationships that often goes overlooked. Successful treatments of life-threatening illnesses typically begin with a strong bond between the physician and patient involved. Healthcare providers are responsible for building trust with parents by evidently showing their genuine care for the patients. According to Professor Teresa Hellín of the Infectious Diseases Service in Ramón y Cajal Hospital, “To attend those who suffer, a physician must possess not only the scientific knowledge and technical abilities, but also an understanding of human nature. The patient is a human being, at the same time worried and hopeful, who is searching for relief, help, and trust (452). This is also applicable to vaccination-hesitant parents because they are entrusting the well-being of their children to the pediatric doctors.

Having the correct communication is vital when patients are perhaps nervous to undergo treatment thus essential to help put anxious patients at ease. I developed this particular skill through buddying young pupils in the transition to secondary school. This was enhanced by my role as a science mentor where my friendly and calm approach helped students improve their grades. Volunteer work as a playgroup assistant and a youth worker developed my patience and kindness. These qualities will enable me to work with patients in a professional capacity, to treat, advise and support them to help improve their independence and

In the state of Texas, a physician-patient relationship must be established in all cases to provide telemedicine care. The reason for this is to ensure the patient is who they say they are, to discuss diagnosis/evidence/risks/benefits, ensure a follow up, and more importantly to diagnose the patient with a full medical history. Texas provides two options to establish a physician-patient relationship. The first option is an in-person evaluation where the patient and provider are in the same physical location. The second option is a face to face evaluation that is performed by a distant site provider at distant location in an established medical site. An established medical site is a with qualified patient presenter staff, quality technology

The social interaction is an integral part of everyday life of each individual, which is learned from the early childhood and is innate in its nature. It includes the social exchange of information, the ability to communicate, decide, and take responsibility for one’s action. The routine work of healthcare professionals includes the information exchange on an everyday basis. The excellent knowledge of primary disciplines necessary for the practice is crucial for the healthcare professional; however, one can encounter the difficulties without the deeper understanding of ethical principles of communication in the healthcare environment. The book “Health Professional and Patient Interaction”” by R. Purtilo, A. Haddad, and R. Doherty introduces the readers with the basic ethical principles and behaviors in the healthcare setting. The key points that the healthcare professional has to practice to achieve success and harmonic professional relationship with the patient are: respect in all circumstances, the ability to listen, the readiness for challenges, and care with empathy to the patient situation beyond any limits.

Conserving the patient-provider interaction is vital to delivering excellent care to patients and ensuring patient follow up. There is a dire need for health care professionals to drive home the necessity for everyone regardless of age to come in for a yearly checkup. There is also a need for these visits to be fully effective for patients and one way a provider can do this is by being fully invested, compassionate, and interested. The thing is much of the underserved population has been raised with the notion that doctor visits are reserved for when disease is more than evident. We need to restore the patient-provider relationship. Being a member of an underserved ethnic group, I can attest to the struggles of growing up without health insurance

Many patients feel that doctors are unable to understand them on a personal level. It is found that when a patient does not feel a connection to their doctor, they will often switch physicians. Rushed doctors often explain a diagnosis in words that a patient cannot understand. In the article “What patients really want to tell Doctors”, a Nurse recalled a time when a Doctor tried to explain why a patient’s blood pressure had changed. She says that when someone is anxious or afraid, their ability to understand is decreased. She says the best way to give information is “in small increments, repeating it as often as necessary for the patient to understand and to make the most informed choices" (Messner and Lewis). Receiving information regarding

Allowing enough time for each patient will boost confidence of their medical care and optimize the amount of patients the doctor sees every day. A pediatrician interacts with a lot of patients, and the amount of time he or she works with provides little breathing room. Most of the patients a pediatrician will attend are young children with their parents. Either the parents or children can prove problematic if the doctor knows little about them as a person. Although knowing the patient’s medical history certainly aids in the doctor’s diagnoses of a problem, learning about who the patient and his or her family beyond medical facts allows for greater bond between them. The patient might see the doctor as another worker looking for pay check, but

A positive physician-patient relationships are important in receiving effective medical care. According to a physician survey, "managed care has a negative impact on physician-patient relationships" (Feldman, Novack, & Gracely, 1998). Most respondents indicated spending less time with their patients as a result of increased productivity under managed care. The health care reform focus on reducing costs which put more pressure on physicians. The physicians must continue to see patients, in order to maintain their income. If the perceptions are correct, many patients have less role in making decisions under the managed care, since patient' participation is related to office visits and relationship with physicians (Feldman, Novack, & Gracely,

The doctor-patient relationship is central to the practice of medicine and is essential for the delivery of high-quality health care in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. A patient must have confidence in the competence of their doctor and must feel that they can confide in him or her. Doctor- patient relationship is reflects in these stories by patients always seeking him out and him always taking care of them regardless if he gets compensated or not. Doctor Williams always seems to put on a frown on his face depending on the type of patients he sees. For example, in the story “Jean Beicke”, doctor- patient relationship reflects the fact that he focuses on her in particular over the other children and helps her to gain weight

I 've been involved with my physician for a couple of months now. There are a lot of factors which make the relationship wrong - mostly on his side: a huge age gap, his marriage & family, the fact that he 's a doctor. He also knows my father, who is a fellow doctor, and the relationship started right when I practically committed suicide. It might be a stupid question, but did he take advantage? I am fully in my right mind and did not feel abused in any way, but I suppose psychology would show that there must be some part of me that was taken advantage of.  We started the relationship and after a few days, it dwindled. Now I feel abandoned and used.

In this case study, there are two problems which caused confusion between the mother of a young boy who was sick and the Doctor. These include language barrier and understanding field expressions (the mother of the sick child did not understand the meaning of the expressions used in the health field). For example, when the doctor stated that, “we’ll try something a little different”, he was not telling her to stop giving the sick child the medication which was recommended for him. Thus, this caused miscommunication between them.

The doctor–patient relationship is central to the practice of healthcare and is essential for the delivery of high-quality health care in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. The doctor–patient relationship forms one of the foundations of contemporary medical ethics. Most universities teach students from the beginning, even before they set foot in hospitals, to maintain a professional rapport with patients, uphold patients’ dignity, and respect their privacy.