scholarly journals General practitioners' experiences during the Covid-19 epidemic in the Bouches-du-Rhône department: anxiety, impact on practice and doctor-patient relationship

2021 ◽  
pp. 100016
Author(s):  
LUZET Jenna ◽  
BELTRAN ANZOLA AnyA ◽  
GILIBERT Marc ◽  
TOSELLO Barthelemy ◽  
GIRE Catherine
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioners ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Doctor Patient Relationship

scholarly journals General Practitioners' Perceptions Towards the Use of Wearable Electronic Health Monitoring Devices: A Qualitative Analysis on Risks and Benefits (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Volpato ◽  
María del Río Carral ◽  
Nicolas Senn ◽  
Marie Santiago-Delefosse
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioners ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Doctor Patient Relationship ◽  
Medical Network ◽  
Wearable Electronic ◽  
Electronic Health ◽  
Monitoring Devices

BACKGROUND The rapid diffusion of wearable electronic health monitoring devices (‘wearable devices’ or ‘wearables’) among lay populations shows that self-tracking and self-monitoring are pervasively expanding, while influencing health-related practices. General practitioners (GPs) are confronted with this phenomenon, since they often are the expert-voice that patients will seek. OBJECTIVE This article aims to explore GPs perspectives on the benefits and risks related to wearable devices and examine their views on their future development of these devices. METHODS Results were collected during a professional symposium among 19 Swiss GPs through mind maps, an innovative methodology in qualitative research that allows for time-efficient data-collection and presentation. RESULTS Data analysis highlighted that wearable devices were often described as user-friendly, adaptable devices, that could enable performance monitoring and support medical research. Benefits included: support for patients’ empowerment and education; behaviour change facilitation; better awareness of personal medical history and body functioning; efficient information-transmission and connection with the patient’s medical network. However, GPs were concerned by the lack of solid scientific validation, lack of clarity over data protection, and the risk of stakeholders’ predominant financial interests around their diffusion. Other perceived risks included the promotion of an overly medicalised, anxiogenic health-culture, and the risk of supporting patients’ self-diagnostic and self-medicating practices. GPs also feared an increased pressure on their workload and the general compromising of the doctor-patient relationship. Finally, they raised important questions on wearable devices’ design and development in the future, highlighting a need for GPs’ and medical professional to be involved in the process. CONCLUSIONS Wearable devices play a more central role in the development of health-practices in daily life, while also affecting the doctor-patient relationship. It is therefore essential to clarify the underpinning logics behind the development and marketing of such devices, whose extensive use may not necessarily be desirable from the GPs’ perspective. This article provides some insights that should be considered in the context of product design, development and distribution, for wearable devices to make a positive impact on general practice.

scholarly journals Viewpoint: Challenges in the doctor - patient relationship: 12 tips for more effective peer group discussion

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 260
Author(s):  
Hamish Wilson
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioners ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Physician Patient Relationship ◽  
Doctor Patient Relationship ◽  
Collegial Support ◽  
Balint Group ◽  
Almost All

In New Zealand, almost all general practitioners are members of peer groups, which provide opportunities for both clinical discussion and collegial support. This article proposes that peer groups can also be a useful medium for exploring specific challenges within the doctor–patient relationship. However, the peer group culture needs to be receptive to this particular goal. Structured discussion can help peer group members explore interpersonal issues more thoroughly. KEYWORDS: Balint group; continuing medical education; general practitioners; peer group; physician-patient relationship

scholarly journals Framing the doctor-patient relationship in chronic illness: a comparative study of general practitioners' accounts

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl May ◽  
Gayle Allison ◽  
Alison Chapple ◽  
Carolyn Chew-Graham ◽  
Clare Dixon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Doctor Patient Relationship

The internet—A useful communication tool but no replacement for the doctor-patient relationship

2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A735-A735
Author(s):  
C STREETS ◽  
J PETERS ◽  
D BRUCE ◽  
P TSAI ◽  
N BALAJI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Doctor Patient Relationship

Drugs and the doctor-patient relationship

1973 ◽  
Vol 131 (4) ◽  
pp. 604-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Sherman
Keyword(s):  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Doctor Patient Relationship

Doctor-Patient Relationship: The Difficult Balance between Patient Psychology and Community Sociology

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Jose Luis Turabian
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Doctor Patient Relationship ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Usual Model ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
Object Of Study

Psychology and sociology share a common object of study, human behaviour, but from different perspectives. Sociologists have focused on macro variables, such as social structure, education, gender, age, race, etc., while psychology has focused on micro variables such as individual personality and behaviours, beliefs, empathy, listening, etc. Despite the importance of interpersonal relationship skills, they depend on the community or social context in which communication takes place, and by themselves may have little relevance in the consultation. The purely psychological analysis of the doctor-patient relationship often leads to an idyllic vision, with the patient-centred consultation as the greatest exponent, which rarely occurs in real life. The purely sociological or community / social analysis of the doctor-patient relationship leads to a negative view of the consultation, which is always shown as problematic. But, the psychological system in the doctor-patient relationship cannot be neglected, and its study is of importance, at least as an intermediate mechanism that is created through socio-community relations. Although the same social causes are behind the doctor-patient relationship, when acting on psychological factors in the consultation, they act as an optical prism scattering socio-community relations that affect the doctor and the patient, giving rise to a beam of different colors of doctor-patient relationship. In doctor-patient relationship there is a modality of psychotherapy, where attitudes, thoughts and behaviour of the patient, can be change, as well as it can be extended on the way of understanding and therefore changing, his social context. Because of the distance between socio-community relations and the form of doctor-patient relations is growing in complex societies, under these conditions, the sociological factor gives the important place to the psychological factor. Given these difficulties of the doctor-patient relationship one may ask how general medical practice can persist with the usual model of doctor-patient relationship. Pain and the desire to relieve them are the basic reasons for the patient and the doctor, and they do not disappear due to the contradictions of the doctor-patient relationship. In this way, the confrontation between sociological and psychological vision is replaced by an alliance of both currents, and each of them takes on meaning only in the general vision.

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