Bergsma Doctors and Patients

Strategies in Long-term Illness
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-94-011-5656-1
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten, eBook

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. Enhancement of the doctor-patient interaction is an important contribution to the mutual reduction of stress and therefore the improvement of the course of (long-term) illness. 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bergsma, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Why we should do it in another way.- 1. Disease and illness, perceptual perspectives.- 2. Identity, problem-solving and autonomy.- 3. The object and the subject.- II. How to do it in a different way.- 4. Communication, stress reduction and decision-making.- 5. The patients’ stories.- 6. The meaning of trauma.- Epilogue.