scholarly journals Doctor patient relationship: Changing scenario in India

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sourabh Paul ◽  
Vikas Bhatia

God has chosen special persons to take care of the physical pains and sufferings of man and such persons are known as doctors. But recently countrywide dissatisfaction on the major pillar of the medical services raises number of questions. In this present article authors have tried to find out the related factors with the changing scenario of doctor- patients relationship from India’s prospective. In the ancient India, doctors were enjoying the highest level of respect in the society because of the attitude and activity towards the patient. In the last decade of the 20th century and beginning of 21st century, a chronic dissatisfaction began to settle over the relationships between doctors and patients. High level of corruption in the health care industry, inequity in health care delivery, technological development in medical science, growth of health insurance, patient’s desire in share decision making, information technology development are few factors behind changing doctor- patient relationship. If physicians take a little more time in reassuring patients in the old fashioned way, this will restore the deteriorating relationship.Asian Journal of Medical Sciences Vol.7(4) 2016 1-5

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Prasad ◽  
C Dhingra ◽  
R Anand

ABSTRACT The doctor patient relationship is of primary importance in the overall health care delivery model. It is a unique relationship which depends on trust and confidence between the parties for the provision of care. Establishing a doctor/patient relationship may take place formally in the office setting or informally, such as by giving verbal advice in a social setting. Doctors enter into a doctor-patient relationship with a commitment to provide their patients with quality service. Patients are entitled to be treated with respect and without discrimination during all stages of the doctor patient relationship, even if the relationship faces termination. However, when circumstances affect the doctors ability to achieve this, the doctors may decide to end the doctors patient relationship.


1989 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peggy Foster

ABSTRACTSince the early 1970s British and American feminists have developed a comprehensive critique of the dominant doctor/patient relationship within mainstream health care services. In Britain, activists in the women's health movement have struggled to put into practice a model of health care delivery based on feminist principles, within which the doctor/patient relationship is radically redesigned. This paper will explore the principles and practice of this feminist health care model. It will then attempt to evaluate alternative strategies for strengthening and expanding feminist health care within the NHS. The paper will draw on data gathered by the author in 1987 through a series of unstructured interviews with feminist health care providers who were working within a variety of NHS settings in the North West of England.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-98
Author(s):  
Boloya Vukumo Eric ◽  
Tawari Erebi Patricia

Background: There is a deep dissatisfaction towards the services offered by doctors in government hospitals. Communication, being one of the major issues both on the part of the doctor and patient. There are also instances where patients lie to doctors about their health status, probably because the doctor fails to create a safe and conducive environment for the patient or because the patient could not confide in the doctor thus resulting in ineffective treatment. The quality of relationship between doctors and patients in government hospitals is fundamental for the several outcomes as regard services rendered by the doctor and those received by the patients and in other to improve the quality of healthcare delivery in public health care sector, there is the need for a research in the possible causes and solution to these problems. The study aimed to determine the perceived influence of doctor-patient relationship on effective health care delivery in some Health Facilities in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study design was conducted among patients in Federal Medical Center, Otuoke, General Hospital, Kolo and Cottage Hospital, Otuasega, all in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa state. Data collection was carried out using both self-administered and interview administered questionnaire. 138 patients were selected for the study. An average of 20 interviews were conducted per clinic day. Results: Results of the study showed that majority of patients interviewed agreed that their relationship with the doctor is important in treatment outcome and were involved in making treatment decisions and were satisfied with the services received from their doctors. Conclusion: Many of the patients were satisfied with the level of doctor patient relationship. Keywords: Perception, Doctor- Patient relationship, Health care delivery.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hajer Arbabi ◽  
Jessie Johnson ◽  
Daniel Forgrave

Background and objective: The Primary Health Care Corporation in Qatar was established in 2012 and is comprised of 23 Health Centers. One of its goals is to create excellence in its workforce. A preceptorship program needs to be initiated at the Primary Health Care Corporation to ensure a high level of training for its nurses. The purpose of these preceptorship programs is to ensure nurses are equipped to carry out Qatar’s National Health Strategy and in doing so the Primary Health Care Corporation has this as its goal. This study amis to assess the effectiveness of preceptorship program models that can eventually be used for adoption as training programs for nurses in Health Centers in Qatar.Methods: A literature review of twenty articles published between 2006 and 2017 that focused on different models of preceptorship programs was conducted. The Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool was used to assess the quality of these studies. The data was analyzed by categorizing the included articles in a matrix sheet based on study design.Results and conclusions: Preceptorship programs are effective in four key areas: increasing nursing knowledge, supporting effective and safe care delivery by newly graduated nurses, increasing organizational support, and decreasing turnover rate and cost. 


Author(s):  
I. L. Kovalyev ◽  
M. N. Kostomakhin

The current stage of information technology development is characterized as digital called BCG (Boston Consulting Group) digitalization, while the analog period in agriculture is over, the industry has entered the digital era, which means that by 2050 the use of new generation technologies will be able to increase the productivity of world agriculture by 70 %. The main stages of information technology development in the world considers some of the most important areas of it technology development and global trends in the digital transformation of the agro-industrial complex based on the analysis of global scientific achievements, research reports, articles by well-known scientists, scientific and expert organizations have been investigated in the article. The main trends that determine the conceptual development of the so-called “Smart (digital) agriculture” are identified, the active use of elements of which contributes in every possible way to the highly rational social, economic, technical and technological development of the agricultural sector. A promising area is Precision Animal Husbandry (similar to Precision Farming). Among the elements of Precision Animal Husbandry the most widely used are identification and monitoring of individual animals using modern information technologies (feeding ration, milk yield, growth, body temperature, activity), meeting their individual needs; automatic regulation of the microclimate and control of harmful gases; monitoring the health of the herd, product quality; electronic database of the production process; robotization of the milking process.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-234
Author(s):  
William B. Bean ◽  
R. J. H.

If only some wise person or group had established land grant medical schools as well as technical colleges, the gravitational tug of medical science into laboratories would have been balanced by the daily correctives which the practical art of caring for the ill and ailing brings. This might have avoided the dissociation and fragmentation which seem to follow so regularly when a medical school-hospital collaboration is transmogrified into a teeming unzoned megalopolis-the modern health-care-delivery-center-jungle.


2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-58
Author(s):  
MS Islam ◽  
ST Jhora

The "doctor-patient" relationship (DPR) or the "physician-patient" relationship (PPR) has long been recognized as a complex, multifaceted, and complicated balance of engagement between the care-seeker and the care-giver. The physician-patient relationship is central to the practice of healthcare and is essential for the delivery of high-quality health care in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. The doctor-patient relationship forms one of the foundations of contemporary medical ethics. In the present moment doctor-patient relationship (DPR) or physician-patient relationship (PPR) is one of the major issues in health-care throughout the world. The most common complains about the physicians of Bangladesh is their attitude towards the patients. The patients must have confidence in the competence of doctors and should feel that they can confide in him or her. For physicians, the establishment of a good relationship with the patients is also important. In developed countries students are taught from the beginning, even before they set foot in hospitals, to maintain a professional relationship with the patients, to uphold patients' dignity, and respect their privacy. These are deficient in Bangladesh. In addition to service factors, perceived treatment cost is another factor that patients may perceive as excessive. This special article reflects the importance as well as the necessary elements to establish this sacred relationship. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bmj.v41i1.18786 Bangladesh Medical Journal 2012 Vol. 41 No. 1; 55-58


2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome Bickenbach

Argumentation theory has much to offer our understanding of the doctor-patient relationship as it plays out in the context of seeking and obtaining consent to treatment. In order to harness the power of argumentation theory in this regard, I argue, it is necessary to take into account insights from the legal and bioethical dimensions of informed consent, and in particular to account for features of the interaction that make it psychologically complex: that there is a fundamental asymmetry of authority, power and expertise between doctor and patient; that, given the potential for coercion, it is a challenge to preserve the interactive balance presumed by the requirement of informed consent; and finally that the necessary condition that patients be ‘competent to consent’ may undermine the requirement of respecting patient autonomy. I argue argumentation theory has the resources to deal with these challenges and expand our knowledge, and appreciation, of the informed consent interaction in health care.


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