Etiquette-Based Medicine
2008; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 358; Issue: 19 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1056/nejmp0801863
ISSN1533-4406
Autores Tópico(s)Innovations in Medical Education
ResumoPatients 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 — . . .
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