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The doctor–patient relationship is a central part of health care and the practice of medicine. A doctor–patient relationship is formed when a doctor attends to a patient's medical needs and is usually through consent. [1] This relationship is built on trust, respect, communication, and a common understanding of both the doctor and patients ...
Sanders highlights the importance of the patient doctor relationship and the increasing depersonalization that is associated with medicine causing serious implications in patient care. In the novel, she advocates for the proper training of physicians in all things science as well as in basic patient care such as taking adequate time to do a ...
A Balint group is a group of clinicians who meet regularly and present cases to each other to discuss. [2] The aim is a group process of exploration and for the medical participants to transform uncertainty and difficulty in the doctor-patient relationship into a greater understanding and meaning that nurtures a more therapeutic alliance between clinician and patient.
Providing patients with ready access to their doctors' visit notes has proven to have a positive impact on the doctor-patient relationship, enhancing patient trust, safety and engagement. [34] [35] Patients with access to notes also show greater interest in taking a more active role in the generation of their medical records. [32]
Clinical detachment is a means of providing objective, detached medical care while maintaining enough concern for the patient to offer emotional understanding. [16] A close patient-provider relationship threatens objectivity, therefore a social distance is expected to ensure professionalism. [17]
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Physician–patient privilege is a legal concept, related to medical confidentiality, that protects communications between a patient and their doctor from being used against the patient in court. It is a part of the rules of evidence in many common law jurisdictions. Almost every jurisdiction that recognizes physician–patient privilege not to ...
Dharmesh Patel, a Pasadena radiologist, was charged with three counts of attempted murder after he drove the family's Tesla off the cliff at Devil's Slide on Highway 1 near Half Moon Bay.