Background Physician care influences patient satisfaction. Inherent physician attributes may also affect scores. Objective To determine the relationship between physician characteristics and patient satisfaction regarding physician care and communication. Method Observational retrospective study. We examined patient satisfaction surveys from inpatient adults across 9 questions (HCAHPS: Cour...

This essay addresses the ethical implications of the physician-patient relationship from the Confucian perspective, which holds that the physician must regard the patient as a family member to treat the patient properly. It is well known that there are two primary approaches to moral authority in contemporary Western medical ethics. One is internal, and assumes that the good inherent to medicin...

Healthcare delivery is being transformed by advances in e-health and by the empowered, computer-literate public. Ready to become partners in their own health and to take advantage of online processes, health portals, and physician web pages and e-mail, this new breed of consumer is slowly redefining the physician/patient relationship. Such changes can effect positive results like improved clini...

Background and Objectives: Metabolic control and observance of dietary therapy in adolescents with type I diabetes is weaker compared to other patients—the fact which might lead to physical, mental, and social changes in such adolescents in this period of their life. Hence, adolescences are more subject to complications of diabetes. This study, accordingly, was conducted to examine the re...

I recently observed a third-year medicine resident interview a 77-year-old established clinic patient with diabetes, hypertension, and mild degenerative joint disease, all well controlled. For the first 19 minutes, of a visit scheduled for 20, the patient focused on reconfirming that her symptoms, unchanged for months, were related to her diagnoses. She also talked animatedly about her granddau...

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