Doctor/Patient Relationship Impact in Medical Term Paper

Besides the growth of health consumerism has demanded more contractual and conflicting relations between patient and doctor. A growing well-educated population has started to challenge medical authority, and treat the doctor-patient relationships as another supplier-consumer relationship instead of a sacred trust based on awe and deference. A general tendency has been seen in steadily reducing trust in physicians and also American medical system as a whole. (The Doctor-Patient Relationship: A Review)

Such trends have interested many symbolic interactionists and discourse analysts to start detailed analyses of doctor-patient communication to counteract the imposition of power and authority within them. The study performed by Howard Waizkin has drawn peculiar attention to the path that American medical communication strengthens individualistic, bio-medical interpretations of problems along with social origins and social remedies and thus represents and regenerates social inequality and disenfranchisement. The studies have also revealed that various kinds of communication influence differently the clinical returns of patient care. The types of medical care that the patients finds contended goes to reduce psychosomatic symptoms and make patients more compliant with their treatment processes and thereby generates improved clinical returns. (The Doctor-Patient Relationship: A Review) core aspect of the patent doctor relationship from physician's perspective is the facilitator of learning from the patient regarding his symptoms, concerns and values. With such facts the physician examines the patient, understands the symptoms and devises the diagnosis to represent the symptoms and their reasons to the patient and to advise a treatment.The doctor patient relationship from ethical perspective is explained in terms of the ways the objectives of beneficence, maleficence, autonomy and justice are accomplished. The degree of patient-doctor relationship is quite significant to both of them. The better relationship in form of knowledge, mutual respect, trustworthiness, sharing of values and views about disease and life and time available, the better is the knowledge of diseases of patient, increasing the accuracy of diagnosis and enhancing the knowledge of patient on the diseases. This entails a positive influence on the medical profession. (Medicine)

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