Margaret McCartney: Patients and professionals: all in this together?
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Margaret McCartney: Patients and professionals: all in this together?
What does partnership mean? Together. On the same side. Working as one. At least, that’s what it means to me, so the tone of some of the recent debate on patient empowerment has surprised me. Many articles in the medical press are telling doctors to get out of the driving seat—saying that we oppress patients, who need “emancipation.” Much of medicine is still grounded in paternalism; this is tr...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h1331