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The New England journal of medicine, 2008-05, Vol.358 (19), p.1988-1989
Ort / Verlag
United States: Massachusetts Medical Society
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
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Patients ideally deserve to have a compassionate doctor, but might they be satisfied with one who is simply well-behaved? Michael Kahn believes that medical education and postgraduate training should place more emphasis on “etiquette-based medicine.”
Patients ideally deserve to have a compassionate doctor, but might they be satisfied with one who is simply well-behaved? When I hear patients complain about doctors, their criticism often has nothing to do with not feeling understood or empathized with. Instead, they object that “he just stared at his computer screen,” “she never smiles,” or “I had no idea who I was talking to.” During my own recent hospitalization, I found the Old World manners of my European-born surgeon — and my reaction to them — revealing in this regard. Whatever he might actually have been feeling, his behavior — . . .