© 2002 Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
EDITORIAL
Doctor-patient communication
"Cases" and voices: the changing agenda for doctors and their patients
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor Alan Radley, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leics LE11 3TU, UK;
A.R.Radley@lboro.ac.uk
Change in health care delivery has major implications for doctor-patient communication
Keywords: doctor-patient communication; general practitioner; social medicine
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The variety and speed of change in the delivery of health care has considerable implications for what has traditionally been called the "doctor-patient relationship". The possibility of improving the communication between patients and doctors was, for a time, one arena in which physicians and social scientists explored some common ground together.1,2 With new contexts for care opening up it is timely to revisit this topic to ask about how this relationship is changing, particularly with respect to the question of the patient’s voice. By this I mean, the scope for patients to help set the agenda in the course of their dealings with medical professionals.
In their book about the life of a country doctor, Berger and Mohr drew a picture of a man whose practice changed over time, and with experience. Initially, "He had no patience with anything except emergencies or serious illness. He dealt only with
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