Title: Doctors and patients
First published: 1997
Description: Patients have personal strategies in solving the problems concerning their illness. Doctors have personal and professional strategies in solving the problems with their patients. This book explores the problematic triangle between doctors, patients and the illness, using illustrations from internal medicine, nephrology, cardiology, oncology and neurology. The first part of the book describes reasons why the partnership between doctor and patient should be improved. The second part offers concrete and practical options to achieve that improvement.
Subjects: Attitude to Health, Autonomy (Psychology), Care, Chronic Disease, Chronic diseases, Chronically ill, Clinical health psychology, Long-term care, Long-term care of the sick, Methods, Physician and patient, Professional-Patient Relations, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Chronic diseases, Psychology, Therapy
LC classification: RA644.5 .B47 1997