Telepsychiatry and Doctor–Patient Communication: A Tale of Two Interviews

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  • Doug Urness
چکیده

Current videoconferencing technology has allowed for the development, acceptance and growth of telepsychiatry programs in Canada and in other countries. Questions and concerns remain about the effect of the videoconferencing context on doctor–patient communication. This paper briefly reviews factors relevant to this issue and presents two case histories that involve challenges for both telepsychiatry and in-person interviews. As demonstrated in these case histories, the encounter context of videoconferencing is only one factor in a complex and dynamic communication process. The success of a telepsychiatry interview is related more to routine communication processes than to videoconferencing technology. Résumé : La télépsychiatrie et la communication médecin–patient : l’histoire de deux entrevues La technologie de la vidéoconférence actuelle a permis l’élaboration, l’acceptation et la croissance de programmes de télépsychiatrie au Canada et ailleurs. Des questions et des doutes subsistent quant à l’effet du contexte de la vidéoconférence sur la communication médecin–patient. Cet article examine brièvement les facteurs relevant de cette question, et présente deux histoires de cas qui comportent des problèmes tant pour la télépsychiatrie que pour les entrevues en personne. Comme il est démontré dans ces histoires de cas, le contexte de la rencontre par vidéoconférence n’est qu’un seul facteur d’un mode de communication complexe et dynamique. Le succès d’une entrevue par télépsychiatrie a davantage trait aux modes ordinaires de communication qu’à la technologie de la vidéoconférence.

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تاریخ انتشار 2003