Law and Healthcare
1. Justify your position about the importance of the physician-patient and hospital-patient relationships.
In a typical physician-patient relationship, the physician usually agrees to diagnose and treat the patient according to the standards of accepting medical practice and to continue doing so until the termination of treatment.
A patient must have confidence in the competence of their physician and must feel that they can confide in him or her. This is always good, when you feel comfortable in talking to your physician things are so much better and it makes you feel secure. As, with my doctor I have been with her since I was sixteen years of age and we have a magnificent physician-patient relationship.At appointments we talk about the nature of the visit, what can be done to correct problem or problems if any, and last but not least the sloution to the problem. From time to time we talk about other things going on in both of our lives and that’s special to me because most physicians, just want to see you and send you on your way and to have that good phyiscian-patient relationship is so important. The quality of the patient-physician relationship is important to both parties. The better the relationship in terms of mutual respect, knowledge, trust, shared values and perspectives about disease and life, and time available, the better will be the amount and quality of information about the patient 's disease transferred in both directions, enhancing accuracy of diagnosis and increasing the patient 's knowledge about the disease. Where such a relationship is poor the physician 's ability to make a full assessment is compromised and the patient is more likely to distrust the diagnosis and proposed treatment, causing decreased responsibility to actually follow the medical advice.
The outcome service of hospitals begins with the patient’s perception of caring and concerned physicians who demonstrate attributes of attentiveness, dignity and respect, effective
In a typical physician-patient relationship, the physician usually agrees to diagnose and treat the patient according to the standards of accepting medical practice and to continue doing so until the termination of treatment.
A patient must have confidence in the competence of their physician and must feel that they can confide in him or her. This is always good, when you feel comfortable in talking to your physician things are so much better and it makes you feel secure. As, with my doctor I have been with her since I was sixteen years of age and we have a magnificent physician-patient relationship.At appointments we talk about the nature of the visit, what can be done to correct problem or problems if any, and last but not least the sloution to the problem. From time to time we talk about other things going on in both of our lives and that’s special to me because most physicians, just want to see you and send you on your way and to have that good phyiscian-patient relationship is so important. The quality of the patient-physician relationship is important to both parties. The better the relationship in terms of mutual respect, knowledge, trust, shared values and perspectives about disease and life, and time available, the better will be the amount and quality of information about the patient 's disease transferred in both directions, enhancing accuracy of diagnosis and increasing the patient 's knowledge about the disease. Where such a relationship is poor the physician 's ability to make a full assessment is compromised and the patient is more likely to distrust the diagnosis and proposed treatment, causing decreased responsibility to actually follow the medical advice.
The outcome service of hospitals begins with the patient’s perception of caring and concerned physicians who demonstrate attributes of attentiveness, dignity and respect, effective
References: Effective Governing Boards (for boards of public institutions). 2009.