objective: bad news disclosure is one of the most complex tasks of physicians. recent evidences indicate that patients' and physicians' attitude toward breaking bad news has been changed since few years ago. the evidence of breaking bad news is different across cultures. the aim of this study is to evaluate the attitude of medical staff toward breaking bad news to provide a clinical guideline i...

in any clinical encounter, an effective physician-patient relationship is necessary for achieving the desired outcome. this outcome is successful treatment, and therefore, the relationship should be a healing one. in addition, in the islamic view, the physician is a manifestation of god’s healing attribute, which is usually undermined in everyday therapeutic communications. yet there are few em...

background and aims: quality of visit services is a decisive aspect of patient-physician communication that its inadequacy can negatively influence the diagnosis efficiency. the aim of this study was to survey visit quality at provincial level during plan of health sector evolution in tabriz. methods: a sample of 540 patients who referred to the outpatient clinics (sheikh al raeis of tabriz pro...

background: medical liability systems play an important role on doctors’ everyday practices and their relationship with patients. they can be established in two ways, fault-based and non-fault. basing medical liability upon the element of fault links it to various issues of medical ethics.  in this paper, we have studied the possible ways each system, could affect the applicability of values an...

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...

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 INTRODUCTION
 Gift-giving patients or their families to physicians has happened since there were and physicians, in many places, it’s still quite common. It’s also potentially problematic, the why how of it offer important insight into physician-patient relationship human relationships more broadly. Yet ethicists, regulators, public have...

abstract background and purpose:now-a-days, patient satisfaction is increasingly receiving the attention of health-service providers, which is a necessary step to enhance the quality of health services. the present study aimed at exploring patient-physician communicative patterns, physicians’ job satisfaction, and patients’ satisfaction at isfahan, iran. materials and methods:this study was a d...