HEKİM-HASTA İLİŞKİSİNİ İYİLEŞTİRMEDE ETKİLİ BİR YÖNTEM: BALİNT GRUP YÖNTEMİ

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 204-217
Author(s):  
Mustafa SAMANCI
Keyword(s):  
Group Method ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Physician Patient Relationship ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Balint Groups ◽  
Patient Relations ◽  
Case Presentations ◽  
Balint Group ◽  
Patient Relationships ◽  
Physician Patient

Balint groups were put forward by Michael Balint, who studied the physician-patient relationship with its deep dimensions in the 1950s. The Balint group method consists of case presentations and general discussions that emphasize the emotional content of physician-patient relationships following the case presentation. One of the aims of establishing Balint groups is to help health professionals and medical students develop empathy skills to reduce communication difficulties between people. Today, worldwide widely used in a manner Approaches of Balint Group, was not given sufficient importance in Turkey. Today, although many scientific studies have been published about Balint groups, there is not any work published in Turkey. The purpose of this study is to discuss the results of some studies about the Balint Group Method and to explain the definition, content, and application of this method in family medicine. It is known that the Balint Group Method contributes greatly to the increase of physicians' empathy levels and to decrease their burnout levels. Nowadays, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare workers have quite tiring and difficult days and their burnout levels are increasing considerably. According to the results of the study, the application of the Balint Group Method by physicians in Covid-19 and the following period will contribute to better physician-patient relations as well as reduce the burnout levels of physicians. In Turkey, the introduction of the Balint Group Method, implementation, and inclusion in educational curricula are recommended. Also, it is recommended that physicians who have experienced the Balint Group Method contribute to the increase of the physician-patient relationship by making these experiences into scientific publications, sharing the results with the literature. As a result of the literature review, the implementation of this method in the virtual environment during the pandemic period and its spread throughout the world will make the application of this method even easier.

Confessional Approach to Disclosure of Medical Error

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Mason
Keyword(s):  
Medical Errors ◽  
Medical Error ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Physician Patient Relationship ◽  
Error Disclosure ◽  
Patient Relationships ◽  
Physician Patient

Abstract Recent literature on the ethics of medical error disclosure acknowledges the feelings of injustice, confusion, and grief patients and their families experience as a result of medical error. Substantially less literature acknowledges the emotional and relational discomfort of the physicians responsible or suggests a meaningful way forward. To address these concerns more fully, I propose a model of medical error disclosure that mirrors the theological and sacramental technique of confession. I use Aquinas’ description of moral acts to show that all medical errors are evil, and some accidental medical errors constitute venial sins; all sin and evil should be confessed. As Aquinas urges confession for sins, here I argue that confession is necessary to restore physicians to the community and to provide a sense of absolution. Even mistakes for which physicians are not morally culpable ought to be confessed in order to heal the physician–patient relationship and to address feelings of professional distress. This paper utilizes an Episcopal theology of confession that affirms verbal admission and responsibility-taking as freeing and relationally restoring acts, arguing that a confessional stance toward medical error both leads to better outcomes in physician–patient relationships and is more compassionate toward physicians who err.

scholarly journals End Violence Against Doctors: Mobile Cabin Hospitals for Prevention and Control of Covid-19 In China

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Changqing Wang ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Economy ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Physician Patient Relationship ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Cultural Considerations ◽  
Patient Relations ◽  
The Cost ◽  
And Control ◽  
Physician Patient ◽  
Violence Against Doctors

Violence against doctors has become an increasing concern. With the improvement of the economy, the physician-patient relationship is becoming increasingly tense, and conflicts are deepening. In the current social economy, there has been a fundamental change in the ideology of the physician-patient relationship focusing on economics, the cost of healthcare, legal consequences of malpractice, as well as ethical and cultural considerations. What seems to be lost is the ideology of a physician-patient relationship based on the concept of healing the wounded and saving the dying, where the patient trusts the physician to lead them toward improved health. Since the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan in December 2019, a number of mobile cabin hospitals have been established in Wuhan to prevent and control COVID-19. Interestingly, mobile cabin hospital may be the much-needed remedy for the breakdown of the physician-patient relationship. Studies shown that the most harmonious physician-patient rrelationships in history have occurred in mobile care units. In this paper, the root cause of the harmonious doctor-patient relationship in mobile cabin hospitals is analyzed. This model may provide information for China’s medical reforms and improvement of physician-patient relations in the future.

Medical Ethics

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.Christopher Hook ◽  
Paul S. Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Physician Patient Relationship ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
Patient Relationships ◽  
Physician Patient ◽  
Rich History

Medicine is first and foremost a relationship. It is the coming together of one individual, the patient, who is ill or has specific needs and a second individual, the physician, whose goal is to help the patient and who possesses a unique set of knowledge and skills to pursue that goal. Because medicine is fundamentally a relationship, it is at heart an ethical endeavor. Indeed, the physician-patient relationship is a fiduciary relationship; physicians have knowledge, skills, and powers that patients do not have. In turn, patients-who are often sick and vulnerable-must trust that physicians act in their patients' best interests. As a result, physicians have a long and rich history of creating oaths and codes that provide ethical norms and frameworks to support and protect physician-patient relationships. Medical ethics consists of a set of principles and systematic methods that attempt to guide physicians on how they ought to act in their relationships with patients and others and how to resolve moral problems that arise in the care of patients.

Simulation-Based Training of Communication and Emotional Competence for the Improvement of Physician-Patient Relationship

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigi Anolli ◽  
Fabrizia Mantovani ◽  
Alessia Agliati ◽  
Olivia Realdon ◽  
Valentino Zurloni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Competence ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Physician Patient Relationship ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Physician Patient

Crisis and Informed Consent: Analysis of a Law-Medicine Malocclusion

1987 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fran Carnerie
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Clinical Setting ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Physician Patient Relationship ◽  
Catastrophic Illness ◽  
Physician Patient ◽  
Emotional Impairment

AbstractMany individuals develop a temporary state of cognitive and emotional impairment after being diagnosed with catastrophic illness. Thus, when crucial decisions about medical treatment are required, they are unable to assimilate information; or worse, the legal need to be informed can rival a psychological desire to not be informed. The Canadian informed consent doctrine is unresponsive to crisis and clinically impracticable, and so paradoxically compromises the integrity and autonomy it was designed to protect. Many aspects of the physician-patient relationship and clinical setting also undermine the philosophical values enshrined in this doctrine. This further jeopardizes the individual's integrity. The Article explores proposals for change such as delaying the informing and consenting, improving the concept of consent, and improving the role of the physician.

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