The nature of the doctor-patient relationship determines the success of treatment in health care practice (NHS).In a good doctor-patient relationship: a good doctor should use a patient centred approach with caring, full confident, knowledgeable and trustworthy, and interpersonal and communication skill. The patient also takes responsibility for his condition, do not give up his life or deny his illness and should be interested to acquire knowledge be looked after. Functionalism is the earliest doctor-patient approaches which was conceived by Talcott Parson in 1951. They believe that good health and effective medical care are essential for the smooth functioning and prosperity of the society. Patients must perform the Parson’s model of sick
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Barber (1963) is one of the functionalists who support the importance of medical experts in the society. He argued that doctors are paramount important, especially for people who are in vulnerable positions. They work for social interest to create a better society by providing high standard medical care for the society. According to functionalists, true professions can be identified by the fact that they share a number of ‘traits’. The traits are: they have fully theoretical updated knowledge which allows them to make independent decisions about the cause and treatment of the diseases, doctors are fully trained and have taken the highest standard examination- only the most intelligent can enter the medical professions and success, They follow a strict code of conducts to ensure that no patient is exploited and deal with people at their most vulnerable and the General Medical Council(GMC) regulates and controlled the doctors rights and …show more content…
Doctors gain significant prestige and power through the idea of science, professionalism and medicalisation which play a major role in constricting the idea and redefine the concept of health in the society. There are so many ways medical professionals control the society to ensure their continuity and profits. The doctors rely on medicine instead of educating how the patient takes personal responsibility for their own health; the patients have no choice except to believe blindly and schools and institutes medical check and vaccinations are main ways of controlling society. The strength of medical professionals is monopolised their market and medicalisation. Medicalisation can take three forms- first the doctor’s ability to redefine the lay approaches of illness, according to open medical intervention, for example, mental illness was redefined as psychiatric condition and medicalised in the late 18th century. The importance of advanced and standard quality care and treatment, for example, better drugs, brain scanning, surgical technics and antibiotic to be named but a few are the second element of medicalisation. The last element of medicalisation is marginisation of alternative medical therapies. However, the actual and the long term possible effect of medicine raised conflicts between the interest of patients and doctors. For example, Ivan Illich (1974) promotes the
Barber (1963) is one of the functionalists who support the importance of medical experts in the society. He argued that doctors are paramount important, especially for people who are in vulnerable positions. They work for social interest to create a better society by providing high standard medical care for the society. According to functionalists, true professions can be identified by the fact that they share a number of ‘traits’. The traits are: they have fully theoretical updated knowledge which allows them to make independent decisions about the cause and treatment of the diseases, doctors are fully trained and have taken the highest standard examination- only the most intelligent can enter the medical professions and success, They follow a strict code of conducts to ensure that no patient is exploited and deal with people at their most vulnerable and the General Medical Council(GMC) regulates and controlled the doctors rights and …show more content…
Doctors gain significant prestige and power through the idea of science, professionalism and medicalisation which play a major role in constricting the idea and redefine the concept of health in the society. There are so many ways medical professionals control the society to ensure their continuity and profits. The doctors rely on medicine instead of educating how the patient takes personal responsibility for their own health; the patients have no choice except to believe blindly and schools and institutes medical check and vaccinations are main ways of controlling society. The strength of medical professionals is monopolised their market and medicalisation. Medicalisation can take three forms- first the doctor’s ability to redefine the lay approaches of illness, according to open medical intervention, for example, mental illness was redefined as psychiatric condition and medicalised in the late 18th century. The importance of advanced and standard quality care and treatment, for example, better drugs, brain scanning, surgical technics and antibiotic to be named but a few are the second element of medicalisation. The last element of medicalisation is marginisation of alternative medical therapies. However, the actual and the long term possible effect of medicine raised conflicts between the interest of patients and doctors. For example, Ivan Illich (1974) promotes the