Physician Empathy In Patient Care Essay

Family members and elders may also take action. If the labor is long, the elders can ask for forgiveness on the part of the mother for any action she has taken against her in-laws that might be stalling the delivery. When a placenta does not fall, ancestral spirits are called, and family members can lift and shake the woman until it does fall. When the family’s knowledge does not help and they can help no further, they may travel to the hospital for the technological care offered by doctors and nurses (Culhane-Pera et al. 2014, 7). In hospital birth complications, the process becomes very impersonal. The life and course of action is taken into the hands of the doctors and nurses, and the family is only informed of the procedures because the …show more content…
This level of comfort develops over the course of the entire pregnancy. The authors of "The relationship between physician empathy and disease complications: an empirical study of primary care physicians and their diabetic patients in Parma, Italy”, a group of MD’s, PhD’s, and PharmD’s, discuss the confirmation of their hypothesis validating the importance of physician empathy in the following quote, “A trust-based relationship in patient care is a ‘royal road’ to optimal clinical outcomes through mechanisms of better communication and greater compliance with treatment plans.” The study evaluates the relationship between a physician and the disease complications of their patients. Little scientific evidence has been found to support the relationship between physician empathy and the outcomes of their care. Even without the scientific proof, it can be suspected that there is a correlation between high patient satisfaction and several factors: verbal and nonverbal communication, time spent with the patient, a patient’s feeling of importance, and accuracy of diagnosis (Del Canale, Stefao et al. 2012, …show more content…
These articles examined different cultures and their traditions associated with pregnancy and birthing and also showed how the practices mixed or became isolated when Western biomedical practices were introduced and integrated into the traditional birthing systems of the Hmong (Culhane-Pera et al. 2014, 3). Despite the comfort and intimacy felt in a home birth, across the board, women are still choosing hospital births because of the safety associated with the biomedical institution. Even as the transition of birthing goes from the home into a hospital, the intimacy is still determined by the woman and her own personal