In current perspective ,we seem to loose our grip on the importance of patient counselling and its impact on doctor patient relationship...Can anyone suggest any articles on this topic?
Dear Sunil,
Check these papers out if they give you some ideas:
Article Doctor's attire influences perceived empathy in the patient-...
Article The Patient–Doctor Relationship Questionnaire (PDRQ-9) in Pr...
Article Depth of the patient-doctor relationship and content of gene...
Article Impact of Electronic Medical Record Use on the Patient-Docto...
Article Psychometric Validation of the Bangla Version of the Patient...
Dear Sunil,
These resources may interest you:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1496871/
http://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/medical_education_residency/fmig/tips_relationships.pdf
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/medical-ethics/code-medical-ethics/opinion10015.page?
Attire correlates in the China paper and may be modulated by societal/cultural expectations to receive or give respect and trust. All the articles above are thoughtful and offer insight into an issue whose outcome is clearly important in terms of pragmatic and ethical professional and fiduciary responsibility to patient care. If an easily modifiable change in attire could achieve this to any degree, it would be important to incorporate into medical school and GME programs. Other correlating factors may not so easily modifiable in achieving goals of selflessness and the others stated. Efforts to modify the behaviors , if not the actually cognitive processes that lead to physicians perspective and feeling on these important issues must continue to unravel how best to teach professionalism to enable true shared decision making.
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