PATIENT PHYSICIAN RELATIONSHIP

Patient Physician Relationship

Problems American Patients Face When Developing a Relationship with Physician

Introduction

The difficulties associated with patient-physician relationship are often posed in terms incomprehension. Misunderstanding on the part of the patient should get medical attention for overcome a weakness he cannot come alone to end, and misunderstanding on the part of doctor, who is unable to grasp what the patient lives. An argument often advanced to explain this misunderstanding is the difference in the nature of discourse unique to each person: the doctor's would fall within the science, the field of objectivity; that arise through the patient's field of feeling, the subjective (Kaplan, 1989). However, such an explanation is incomplete, if not simplistic. If true that medical knowledge has a special place within the relationship, what we intend to analyze further, it cannot then be the source of all difficulties. One cannot ignore or human capacity of the physician who seeks the best way to approach the patient nor the patient's ability to take an objective look or Scientific, carried by a knowledge of its pathology. The evolution of thinking about meaning to the notion of human led the medical profession to integrate its practice supported more attention to the subjectivity in pain she must deal with. Of similarly, the growing public interest led to his health, through media such as via patient organizations, development of medical knowledge now accessible to all.

Discussion

The doctor-patient relationship can be defined as an interpersonal relationship with ethical implications, philosophical and sociological professional type is the basis for health management. Hardly the caring relationship may be present if the doctor provides the patient with a temporal relationship, psychological, manual, deep, caring and professional. Could never be an interpersonal relationship through devices because it has to develop in a human context (Moreno, 2001). The doctor-patient relationship may be classified in different ways but the most used by its practicality is one that provides three different ways.

Active-passive relationship. Guided cooperative relationship. Relationship of mutual participation.

The active-passive relationship is one that is established with comatose patients, or who is in a situation that allows them to establish a more participatory, as is the case of patients with acute pulmonary edema. The tour is the cooperative relationship established with patients who are able to cooperate in diagnosis and treatment, as in some acute diseases (pneumonia, for example) and chronic conditions such as hypertension. The relationship of mutual participation, not only provides compliance with treatment, but control in front discussion of situations and attitudes related to the cause and course of the disease.

The Patient's Behavior in Psychotherapy

When the therapy lasts for a short period of time and is reduced only to a few visits to the doctor, the patient behaves quite differently than long-term treatment. If treatment is limited to a few visits, the patient usually makes every effort to consciously contribute to treatment and to cooperate fully with your doctor. His attitude to the doctor is usually reserved, but friendly; he tries to understand the ...