The authors suggest that three articles published in the Fall 2013 issue of The Journal of Clinical Ethics could be used in graduate medical education to help students be more prepared to address differences in professional opinion and improve their skills in patient-doctor communication.
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J Commun Healthc
December 2024
Department of Health Systems Management, College of Jezreel Valley, Tel Adashim, Israel.
Background: Being inherently service oriented, healthcare organizations emphasize patient-centered care and service quality. However, unwarranted disruptions during patient-doctor interactions can negatively impact perceptions of service quality. Integrating digital technologies such as smartphones into patient-doctor interactions might affect perceived (as well as actual) service quality.
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December 2024
University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Interdisciplinary Centre Psychopathology and Emotion regulation, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Objective: The healthcare professional's attitude toward persistent somatic symptoms (PSS) seems to play an important role in access to and quality of care for patients with PSS. To encourage research on PSS attitude, we developed and validated the Professionals' Attitude to Persistent Somatic Symptoms Questionnaire (PAPSS).
Methods: A list of items was developed through theory and a focus group with PSS experts, with response categories on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree".
BMJ Open
December 2024
Ban Koh Mak Sub-District Health Promoting Hospital, Phatthalung Province Administrative Organization, Phatthalung, Thailand.
Objectives: This study aimed to explore the prevalence of medication non-adherence and influence of symptom perception and various barriers on medication adherence among Thai Muslim patients in a rural subdistrict of southern Thailand.
Design: Explanatory sequential mixed-methods approach.
Setting: A rural community in southern Thailand.
Int J Med Educ
December 2024
Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.
Objectives: The purposes of this study were to identify reflective processes from patients' points of view for difficult patient-doctor interactions and learn how the processes made medical students and residents aware of their own medical practice. These processes were compared in two countries (US and Japan).
Methods: The study was a descriptive qualitative study utilizing semi-structured interviews.
Pak J Med Sci
December 2024
Dr. Noor-i-Kiran Naeem, FCPS, MSc. MEd, PhD Medical Education. Assistant Professor, Medical Education, ABWA Medical College, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Email:
Patient-physician interaction is an essential factor influencing the patient's health management decisions. This communication allows the patients to develop trust in the treating physicians and facilitates them in deciding what's best for themselves. The physicians, on the other hand, may interact with the patients based on three moral philosophies i.
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