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Is the Therapeutic Nature of the Patient-Physician Relationship Being Undermined?
A Primary Care Physician's Perspective
Arch Intern Med. 2000;160:2257-2260.
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INTRODUCTION
By far the most frequently used drug in general practice was the doctor himself. No pharmacology of this important drug exists. No guidance is contained in any textbook as to the dosage the doctor should prescribe himself. The usual answer is that experience and common sense will help the doctor to acquire the necessary skill.—Michael Balint1
SINCE THE advent of managed care, the practice of medicine has changed rapidly in just a few years. From the perspective of a generalist physician, such as myself, major changes include the loss of flexibility in controlling one's practice, the often wholesale transfers of patients from one physician to another as employers switch health plans, the impersonal selection of physicians from a list rather than by personal referral, and the existence of a large percentage of young physicians who are entering practice today as salaried employees of organizations. Just a few years ago, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
HOW PHYSICIANS CAN ADDRESS THEIR PATIENTS' CONCERNS
BUILDING TRUST IN THE PATIENT-PHYSICIAN RELATIONSHIP
THE THERAPEUTIC ROLE OF THE PATIENT-PHYSICIAN RELATIONSHIP
DEFINING THE PATIENT-PHYSICIAN RELATIONSHIP
THREATS TO THE PATIENT-PHYSICIAN RELATIONSHIP
THE IMPORTANCE OF IDEALS
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Health Care Becomes an Industry
Rastegar
Ann Fam Med 2004;2:79-83.
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