The Health Care Professional’s Effect on the Psychological Health of a Trauma Patient
“It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.” – Sir William Osler. This quote alludes to the idea the knowing your patient is as important that treating the disease alone. Is it possible that the positive or negative communication and attitudes of nurses, doctors, and surgeons given charge over a patient, alter the prognosis of that patient’s health? And if so, is the difference in patient outcome large enough to make the medical community change the amount of education in psychology that medical students receive. The purpose of this paper is to explore the theory that the medical care …show more content…
and receiving care from hospitals, private practices and clinics. The yardstick used to measure outcomes the of these studies is the patients’ health, such as; level of function, blood pressure, glucose levels, mental stability, physical pain and emotion well-being.
The Importance of Bedside Manners
For many years there was not a great concern with the importance of the doctor to patient interaction. In a review done by Fong Ha et al 2010, Reports that “75% of the orthopedic surgeons surveyed believed that they communicated satisfactorily with their patients, but only 21% of the patients reported satisfactory communication with their doctors” There is a visible disconnect of information for such a large gap to occur. Research suggests that the medical community needs to reevaluate its outlook on this subject and the benefits of effective communication.
The …show more content…
Medical professionals must fight the urge to become jaded, remembering that some patients may be experiencing a very difficult and stressful ordeal. Terry Canale once said, “The patient will never care how much you know, until they know how much you care”. We must start giving medical professionals a solid base education of the most effective technics for communicating in a meaningful way that heals a patient’s mind and
“It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.” – Sir William Osler. This quote alludes to the idea the knowing your patient is as important that treating the disease alone. Is it possible that the positive or negative communication and attitudes of nurses, doctors, and surgeons given charge over a patient, alter the prognosis of that patient’s health? And if so, is the difference in patient outcome large enough to make the medical community change the amount of education in psychology that medical students receive. The purpose of this paper is to explore the theory that the medical care …show more content…
and receiving care from hospitals, private practices and clinics. The yardstick used to measure outcomes the of these studies is the patients’ health, such as; level of function, blood pressure, glucose levels, mental stability, physical pain and emotion well-being.
The Importance of Bedside Manners
For many years there was not a great concern with the importance of the doctor to patient interaction. In a review done by Fong Ha et al 2010, Reports that “75% of the orthopedic surgeons surveyed believed that they communicated satisfactorily with their patients, but only 21% of the patients reported satisfactory communication with their doctors” There is a visible disconnect of information for such a large gap to occur. Research suggests that the medical community needs to reevaluate its outlook on this subject and the benefits of effective communication.
The …show more content…
Medical professionals must fight the urge to become jaded, remembering that some patients may be experiencing a very difficult and stressful ordeal. Terry Canale once said, “The patient will never care how much you know, until they know how much you care”. We must start giving medical professionals a solid base education of the most effective technics for communicating in a meaningful way that heals a patient’s mind and