scholarly journals The effect of the doctor-patient relationship on emergency department use among the elderly

2000 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-102 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Doctor Patient Relationship ◽  
Emergency Department Use

scholarly journals Bioethics and Nutrition in the Older Adult

2022 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Jessica Andrea Aguilera-Hernández ◽  
Lydia Lopéz Pontigo ◽  
María del Refugio Acuña Gurrola ◽  
Arianna Omaña Covarruvias
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Doctor Patient Relationship ◽  
High Standards

At the professional practice of nutrition, as in the rest of the health disciplines, it is necessary to follow high standards in order to establish the best doctor-patient relationship and the greatest benefit in the user's health. In a special way, the factors that are indexed in the nutrition of the elderly must be specified; since, during the stage of old age, individuals present physiological and psychosocial changes that affect their nutritional status, which lead to both overweight and malnutrition, implying malnutrition problems. Thus, recommendations are established for both the ethical aspects and the components that must be considered for the adequate feeding of the elderly, including the ethical considerations involved in the interventions.

How Should Physicians Approach the Problems of Their Patients?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 94 (6) ◽  
pp. 928-931
Author(s):  
Paul S. Bellet
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Airway Disease ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Doctor Patient Relationship ◽  
Pediatric Residents ◽  
Reactive Airway Disease ◽  
Reactive Airway

During a recent seminar with pediatric residents to discuss the role of empathy in the doctor-patient relationship, the following dialogue occurred. Resident: It is fine and terrific to talk about how useful empathy can be, but it does not work when children with reactive airway disease have parents who continue to smoke. I feel strongly that people should not smoke. When these children wheeze, their parents bring them to the Emergency Department and we have to see them and deal with the same problem over and over again. Physician: Have you talked to the parents to try and understand their feelings about smoking and whether they believe it influences their child's wheezing?

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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