Summary: The Physician Patient Relationship

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“He who sins before his maker, may he fall into the care of a physician” (Bible; Sirach 38:15). It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the importance of the physician patient relationship. There is a significant therapeutic power in the physician patient cooperation. Furthermore, working together presents the chance to substantially develop the patient 's quality of life and health status. That therapeutic union comprises a particular and vital physician responsibilities. This essay will explore some aspect of the ethical relationship between the medical professional and the patient. Moreover, I will create and my own version of the Hippocratic (Doctor’s) Oath.
The past model for the physician patient relationship encompassed
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Moreover, it will offer patients a sense that they have been heard and permitted to articulate their main worries, as well as respect, caring, sympathy, self-disclosure, positive respect, similarity, and accepting, and permits patients to communicate and exhibit their feelings and convey their stories in their own terms. However, the amount of time spent together is less significant than the perception by patients that they are the center of the time and that they are precisely perceived. There are also other qualities which are essential to the relationship including provoking the patients ' own descriptions of their disease, handing patients data, and including the patients in obtaining a therapy …show more content…
Furthermore, patients must be offered with the best possible care regardless of sexuality, ethnicity, age, religious beliefs or politics. This is especially true of way of life matters. Whatever the physician’s view of drug dependency, obesity, and smoking, it is his or her moral obligation to be compassionate, not judgmental.
There are issues about how much information must be provided and how this can best be produced in a way that the patient comprehends. Moreover, the physician can’t simply attain a consent; that consent need to be informed. Informed consent relates to all therapeutic interventions, including prescribing, and not only to operations or surgical procedures.
The notion of “first do no harm” has been preserved in healing ethics for long time, but one need to bear in mind that there is no intervention that does not have some small risk. Hence, although doing no harm must be one 's first concern, it should not stop the physician from evading all therapies which have some risk enclosed. Moreover, the issue of benefits and risks should be assessed on what was known at the time.
Hippocratic Oath
I swear by the all the old gods and the new

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