Doctor/Patient Relationships

Doctor/Patient Relationships

Summary of the Topic

Once upon a time, when you became ill, your only course of action was to call your doctor and make an appointment have your symptoms checked out. In today's highly connected world, however, we are also able to gain answers in other ways. But today things are changing. Patients are not only clients to doctors. Patients have occupied smart, beautiful, emotionally rich and a prominent place in society. Statistics confirm that the majority of lawsuits are due to conflict situations in the relationship with the patient (Gröne, 2002. Complaints tend to arise not in the quality of care, and the callousness, the formalism of physicians.

In past centuries, the role of the physician is often reduced to a simple observation of the natural course of the disease. The style of relationships, until recently, lay in the fact that the patient trusted the doctor to make decisions. The doctor is "solely in the interest of the patient," acted as it saw fit. It seemed that this approach improves the efficiency of treatment: the patient free of doubt and uncertainty, and the doctor completely takes care of him. The doctor did not share his doubts with the patient, concealed from him unpleasant truths. In this paper, we are going to discuss doctor patient relationship in current society.

Review of the Research

Too close relationship, when a psychologist or psychotherapist, imbued with feelings of the patient, trying to save him, completely shifting the responsibility for the process and result of the correction itself, can lead to "burnout" specialist. "Burnout" can be expressed in myocardial infarction, obsessive thinking about customers and their problems, insomnia or insurmountable aversion to the profession. At the same clients with no significant changes are: spout his sorrow at the specialist; he again soaked it like a sponge. Too much distance in the relationship, distancing the psychologist, the therapist leads to his spiritual and legitimate customer annoyance: an expert in this case shows very little emotional involvement, and the correction process resembles a bureaucratic procedure. In other words, a psychologist or therapist is like a pie in the oven: being too close to fire, it burns too far - stale (McKinstry, 2009). The client has to save himself, but the specialist is obliged to help him in this.

The doctor-patient relationship has traditionally followed what might be called the "paternalistic model" In this model, the physician is confident to know and be objective. He sees himself as the guardian of the interests of the patient. He makes decisions for him, observing simply a principle of beneficence. The principle of beneficence could be explained as:

The duty not to harm;

The duty to prevent harm or suffering;

The duty to suppress the evil or suffering;

Duty to do good or to promote the well

Relations between the subjects of such work are generally very close, very deep. Some thoughts and feelings a person cannot tell either his mother or wife or best friend, and even he sometimes do not dare to admit ...