Doctor-patient InteractionWalburga Von Raffler-Engel This volume covers many of the ways of speaking that create problems between doctor and patient. The questions under consideration in the present book are the following: How is the doctor-patient interaction structured in a particular culture? What takes place during the process? What causes misunderstandings, lack of cooperation and even total non-compliance? What is the outcome of the interaction and how does the patient benefit from it? Finally, and this is the ultimate purpose of this book: How can the interaction be improved so that an optimum outcome is assured for the patient with maximum satisfaction to the physician? |
Contents
Doctorpatient relationships in the 1980s | 1 |
North American Indians vs the mainstream medical profession | 45 |
Medical historytaking as an interactive event | 61 |
Linguistic means of social distancing in physicianpatient communication | 77 |
The psychoanalytic discourse | 93 |
a focus on the physicianpatient relationship | 109 |
The dialogicsof a doctorpatient relationship | 159 |
Doctorpatient interactions in cases of severe oligophrenia and dementia | 181 |
Physicianpatient relations in Judaism | 213 |
Parentprofessional communication relative to medical care decision making for seriously ill newborns | 227 |
Epilogue | 255 |
Interview with a gynecologic oncologist on doctorpatient interactions | 257 |
Letters from a resident | 275 |
Ten keys to better doctorpatient relations | 285 |
Summaries | 289 |
the conversational organization of a clinical encounter | 197 |
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