The Duty of the Patient to Cooperate

AbstractIn discussing the normative implications of the doctor-patient relationship, medical ethics has mostly focused on the duties of doctors to their patients. This focus neglects an important normative dimension of the doctorpatient- relationship, namely the duties of patients to doctors. Only few authors have discussed the content and ground of the moral duties of patients, and each of these accounts are wanting in some way. This paper discusses patients’ duties and argues that patients have a relationship-dependent obligation to cooperate with the doctor, because doctors have a morally justified interest in fulfilling their moral role obligations as doctors, and by not cooperating, patients make it more difficult for doctors to fulfill their moral obligations. In some cases, failing to cooperate might even create an avoidable moral dilemma for the doctor.

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Duties of Behavior Toward Patients

The Trusted Doctor ◽

10.1093/med/9780190859909.003.0006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 118-137

Author(s):

Rosamond Rhodes

Keyword(s):

Medical Ethics ◽

Medical Information ◽

Common Morality ◽

Patient Relationship ◽

Doctor Patient Relationship ◽

Case Examples ◽

Medical Needs ◽

Numerous Case ◽

Patient Interactions ◽

Treatment Plans

This chapter explains three central physician duties that clearly set medical ethics apart from common morality: nonjudgmental regard, nonsexual regard, and confidentiality. Because patients will not trust doctors when they are not confident in the doctor’s devotion and commitment to meeting their medical needs, doctors must avoid any intimation of judging a patient unworthy of care. Because doctors need their patients to trust that the intimacy of the doctor-patient relationship has no sexual overtones in spite of the revelation, nudity, and touching, doctors must maintain nonsexual regard in their patient interactions. Because doctors need patients to divulge intimate personal details about their behavior and history in order to make accurate diagnoses and develop treatment plans, patients must be able to trust their doctors to uphold confidentiality and only share medical information with other professionals on a need-to-know basis. These duties are explained and illustrated with numerous case examples.

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Trust is the Core of the Doctor–Patient Relationship: From the Perspective of Traditional Chinese Medical Ethics

China: Bioethics, Trust, and The Challenge Of The Market ◽

10.1007/978-1-4020-6757-0_4 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 39-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Benfu Li ◽

Linying Hu

Keyword(s):

Medical Ethics ◽

Patient Relationship ◽

Doctor Patient Relationship ◽

The Core ◽

Traditional Chinese Medical

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Tolerance as a Constructive Mechanism of Dialogue in the Field of Healthcare

wisdom ◽

10.24234/wisdom.v2i7.136 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2 (7) ◽

pp. 44

Author(s):

Tatevik PIRUMYAN ◽

Susanna DAVTYAN

Keyword(s):

Medical Ethics ◽

Social Value ◽

Moral Norm ◽

Patient Relationship ◽

Human Beings ◽

Human Response ◽

Doctor Patient Relationship ◽

Patient Tolerance ◽

Bioethical Issues

Modern bioethical issues (doctor-patient relationship) should be based on a tolerant attitude towards patient. Tolerance is an important value in Ethics, medical Ethics and Bioethics. As a moral norm, tolerance is a virtue. It is a rational human response, social value, which ensures the rights, freedom and security of human beings. Tolerance is a social ideal originating in society.

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Patients recording their clinical consultations: A new challenge for medical ethics

InnovAiT Education and inspiration for general practice ◽

10.1177/1755738020907358 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (5) ◽

pp. 306-310

Author(s):

Dan P Turley ◽

Neil H Metcalfe

Keyword(s):

General Practice ◽

Medical Ethics ◽

Individual Rights ◽

Patient Relationship ◽

Doctor Patient Relationship ◽

Advantages And Disadvantages ◽

Video Recordings ◽

The Future ◽

The Individual

Patients can and do record their consultations in general practice. Data suggests that 19% of doctors have reported being recorded, with 40% of these being unaware at the time. Due to rapid advancements in technology in recent years, over three quarters of patients that attend clinical consultations have the ability to take audio or video recordings using internet-connected smartphones. This paper will look at the individual rights of both the doctor and the patient with regard to recording clinical consultations, assess the advantages and disadvantages that can result and ask whether the future of the doctor–patient relationship is threatened by this modern behaviour.

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