There are certain situations where patient and doctor just aren't a good match, according to Krebs.
The relationship between patient and doctor used to be considered something special, almost sacred.
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"As a medical doctor practicing in this field, I hold sacred the bond of confidentiality that exists between a patient and doctor, " he said.
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"It's better to bring it up earlier than right at the end of the encounter, as the doctor is getting up to leave the room, because that's frustrating for both patient and doctor, " says Kroenke.
"The advice goes for both patient and doctor, including myself, to state up front what are our goals for the time we're spending together, also our expectations, and also to have an understanding of the time limitations we have going forward, " An said.
"The notion that we have some bureaucrat standing next to every doctor between the patient and that doctor is a complete creation, there is no truth to that at all, " Segal said.
The best way to do that is at ... the state level that respects the relationship between the patient and the doctor.
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This decision is much better made by the patient and her doctor.
But the right answer is not to have the federal government take over health care and start mandating to the providers across America, telling a patient and a doctor what kind of treatment they can have.
The Republican cry that the government should not come between a doctor and her patient is fine in principle, but if the doctor and drug company are getting their money from the government then we have the right and obligation to have the brake of reason on the reimbursements.
The question: Do smartphone devices really work well enough for the average patient and primary care doctor to dive in, or are early adopters just going for the cool factor?
And the courts have determined that while the government can poke around in the communications between doctor and patient, the attorney-client privilege is sacrosanct.
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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.
The days of filling out the same patient form for each and every doctor visited is quickly becoming so 20th century.
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Nevertheless, one of the primary motivations for medicine's ethical code is the asymmetry of information that exists between doctor and patient.
"It really is very difficult to manage for both doctor and patient, " says Jack Ansell, a professor of medicine at Boston University.
Under the law eventually passed in 1995, abortion is judged in principle an offence for which doctor and patient can be jailed.
GE's Medical Systems unit outfitted the Indiana Heart Hospital with 650 computers--that works out to more than six computers for every single doctor and patient.
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.
The results go to the patient's doctor, and so on to her medical record, where insurance companies and employers may be able to read them, and interpret them as they like.
If Medicare might not or will not pay for a service, a doctor and patient can fill out a form called the Advance Beneficiary Notice, which states that if Medicare does not reimburse the claim, the patient will pay for the service.
Some doctors don't stock it, and they give patients a prescription to take to the drugstore--then the patient must rush back to the doctor and get the shot before it defrosts and spoils.
Health insurance companies and employers that hire them hold significant sway over patient choices of doctors and hospitals through their preferred doctor lists known as networks.
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Teleradiologists , for example, view digitally transmitted patient images and confer with the primary doctor via videoconferencing.
Sean's continuous mourning of his dead wife puts the doctor and his patient in equally-tenuous psychological territory, and, if you've ever seen "Ordinary People, " you've seen most of this relationship before.
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The app also includes sections for caregiving tips, notes for the doctor and the patient's appointments, plus a "learning section" with articles on aspects of Alzheimer's and an RSS feed for news about the disease.
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.
The company looked into the matter and discovered that the patient's doctor had submitted the claim nine times but used the wrong code without correcting it.
Its computers could then automatically notify a hospital or a doctor to call a patient and bring him in for treatment before he ends up in intensive care.
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