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According to a recent Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study, when given the opportunity to review their medical notes, the majority of patients at three health systems reported a better understanding of their health conditions, felt more in-control of their care and had an improved doctor-patient relationship.
FORBES: Removing The Red Tape From Patient Records
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Doctors may be uncomfortable knowing about the extra-marital activities of their patients, but confidentiality is a key part of the doctor-patient relationship and is essential in ensuring that the public's trust in doctors will be maintained.
BBC: When do you break a patient's confidence?
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Anyone who has actually done real psychotherapy, in which people really pour out their souls (in my 20s, I practiced psychiatry), knows how dangerous, delicate and often destructive such an exercise can be -- even in the privacy, confidentiality and highly ritualized setting of the doctor-patient relationship.
CNN: Viewpoint: Not Enough Conversation?
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It entails a different approach to life, death, health and illness, and a different view of the doctor-patient relationship, of health services and of risk factors.
UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences
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The difficulty is that they have a duty of patient confidentiality which is central to the success of the doctor-patient relationship and means that patients feel able to confide honestly with their GP.
BBC: Gun concerns: Why doctors should not always speak out
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He wants to help the residents think about the doctor-patient relationship and ways of humanizing the hospital experience.
NPR: Medical Lesson: Learning to Relate to Patients
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And she watched as the method of paying for health care reached its way into the exam room, putting a stranglehold on how doctors practice, and profoundly influencing the doctor-patient relationship.
FORBES: One Woman's Journey Of Courage: Maggie Kozel, MD And Her Decision To Leave The Medical Profession
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Such inquiries will instead only offend and alienate many responsible gun owners, compromising the trust essential to the doctor-patient relationship.
FORBES: Why Doctors Should Not Ask Their Patients About Guns
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Injecting so much uncertain genetic information into the doctor-patient relationship could create legions of "patients in waiting" leading to unnecessary tests, harmful outcomes and lifelong anxiety.
WSJ: Should Healthy People Have Their Genomes Sequenced?