Establishing and Terminating the Physician-Patient Relationship

The Patient-physician Relationship

DURING THE 1980S, RENEWED interest in the patientphysician relationship and the availability of more sophisticated audio and video technology allowed investigators to explore medical discourse in unprecedented detail. One of the most frequently quoted studies from this period (Beckman and Frankel) suggested that patients, asked to describe their concerns by a physician, were most often redirect...

Celebrating the patient-physician relationship.

For me the month of February is about relationships— celebrating those we love on Valentine’s Day and, for many, honouring our relationships with family members on Family Day. This leads me to reflect on the relationships I have with my patients and how important they are to the work we do together to improve their health and well-being. As in our personal relationships, the relationship we hav...

Techniques for terminating patient-physician encounters in primary care settings.

BACKGROUND Physicians in the community work on a tight and often pressured schedule; verbal and non-verbal techniques to terminate the patient-physician encounter are therefore necessary. OBJECTIVES To characterize ways of terminating the encounter. METHODS Using a structured questionnaire we observed seven family physicians and nine consultants and recorded patient-physician encounters to ...

Internet prescribing and the physician patient relationship.

MEDICINE & HEALTH/RHODE ISLAND In 1997, a young pharmacist who had gone on to medical school graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA. In 2000, he was licensed to practice medicine in the state of Rhode Island; in 2001 he earned Board Certification in Emergency Medicine. Several years later, he entered into an agreement with Rx Partners, an Internet pharmacy that employed ph...

Managed care and the physician/patient relationship.