This editorial highlights increasing prevalence and treatment rates of apparently disparate disorders. We ask whether cross-disorder factors including greater mental health literacy, social media and a shift to psychiatric explanations for distress contribute to these trends. We highlight a consequence: the changing doctor-patient relationship and its impacts.
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J Otol
October 2024
Law at China University of Geosciences (Beijing), No.29 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District,Beijing,100083, China.
Under the background of medical disputes growing in number, scale and intensity, tracing back legal changes in medical field as a breakthrough point, this paper took a legal perspective to illustrate changes in medical dispute settlements from legislative orientation to legal system improvement. In view of the fact that early legislation in medical field was biased towards identification and punishment of doctors' responsibility, and later intensive legislation in balancing increasing "medical trouble" phenomenon with limited effects and difficulties to abide by the law, this paper proposed to improve doctor-patient dispute settlements system in China referencing from foreign law experience, to reduce investigation of doctors at the judicial level, and to establish a settlement mechanism on doctors' apology at the legislative level, so as to promote a healthy development of doctor-patient relationship.
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January 2025
St Vincent's University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4, D04 T6F4, Ireland.
Purpose: To explore if patients' preferences regarding formalities and inpatient accommodation during their inpatient hospital experience have changed since 1999.
Methods: A ten-item survey was administered to an inpatient sample in an urban teaching hospital and compared with results from a similar survey in 1999.
Results: The majority (98.
Trends Psychiatry Psychother
January 2025
Delete Lab-Digital Detox and Conscious Use of Technologies, Institute of Psychiatry (IPUB), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Objectives: Thus, through a narrative review, this article analyzes how the advancement of technology, the use of digital resources, and social media have impacted the doctor-patient relationship.
Methods: We conducted a scoping review on the relationship between Digital Health Equity and Telemedicine and e-health via Scopus and Pubmed electronic databases. The following inclusion criteria were established: papers on the relationship between digital health equity and telemedicine and e-health, written in English and with no time limits.
Cytojournal
November 2024
Medical College, Ningbo University Health Science Center, Ningbo, China.
Objective: Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have poor prognoses. Sulfatase 1 (SULF1) is an extracellular neutral sulfatase and is involved in multiple physiological processes. Hence, this study investigated the function and possible mechanisms of SULF1 in NSCLC.
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December 2024
Beijing Hepingli Hospital, Beijing, China.
Objective: This paper investigates the anxiety surrounding the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in doctor-patient interactions, analyzing the perspectives of both patients and healthcare providers to identify key concerns and potential solutions.
Methods: The study employs a comprehensive literature review, examining existing research on AI in healthcare, and synthesizes findings from various surveys and studies that explore the attitudes of patients and doctors towards AI applications in medical settings.
Results: The analysis reveals that patient anxiety encompasses algorithm aversion, robophobia, lack of humanistic care, challenges in human-machine interaction, and concerns about AI's universal applicability.
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