Doctor/patient relationships
- Created by: Evie
- Created on: 28-03-14 12:45
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- Doctor/Patient relationship
- Competence of Doctors
- Bearing the title Dr.
- Treatment room as the setting
- Certificates on wall, Books etc.
- Patients automatically accept diagnosis and recommended treatment
- Hippocratic Oath
- Private health care vs. NHS
- Exploitation for more money
- Can usually get the same treatment on the NHS
- More likely to passively accept treatment on the NHS
- Exploitation for more money
- Therapies and therapists
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapists have control over clients future behaviour. This may be a form of social control
- Psychoanalysis
- Subjective therapy professionals have much control over thought processes, repressed memories etc.
- Beth Rutherford- Psychoanalysis led her to believe that she had been ***** as a child but these memories were implanted by her counselor but it never actually happen.
- Therapist interprets thoughts/dreams in their own way
- Storr et al. (1997)- argues that the therapist puts forward their subjective views and patients alter their behaviour to comply with these
- Relationship with Doctor
- Family doctors, builds up trust etc.
- Emotional attachment
- Vulnerable patients more at risk
- Imbalance of power- Doctors more powerful in the relationship
- Competence of Doctors
- Bearing the title Dr.
- Treatment room as the setting
- Certificates on wall, Books etc.
- Patients automatically accept diagnosis and recommended treatment
- Hippocratic Oath
- Competence of Doctors
- Changes in modern society
- More shared decision making
- The internet to search for other information and treatments
- Self-diagnosis
- There is multi-agency working which means groups of professionals (i.e GPs, carers etc.) confer to reach the most beneficial decision on behalf of the patient
- Competence of Doctors
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