HSS 3332 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Biopsychosocial Model, Gabi Balint, Paternalism
26 Dec 2018
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What are the six key components of the patient centered clinical method: exploring both the disease and the illness experience, understanding the whole person, finding common ground, enhancing the doctor-patient relationship, being realistic. Informative: scientific, engineering or consumer model; obligation here is for the doctor to provide all the available facts, and then the patient, with their own value set, determines the outcome. Interpretive: here the aim is for the doctor to elucidate the patients" value system, and thereby help select the best intervention: deliberative: doctor acts as a teacher or friend. Patients will not choose a doctor that is powerless , what four abilities does a doctor need to facilitate the doctor-patient relationship: 1. Ability to share information with patients, respond to pateint"s cues, and obtain a full understanding of patients" wants (accountability: 2. To help patients tell their stories, formulate and express preferences, and make informed decisions on treatments (autonomy: 3.
