Doctor - Patient Partnership: simple responsibilities of both sides
- Apr 24
- 1 min read
During communications with patients a doctor should:
✔️ Explain everything in understandable language (ex., using simple words),
✔️Maintain professional ethical boundaries,
✔️Respect the patient as a person,
✔️ Make clinical decisions in diagnosis and treatment, but NOT fulfill the patient's wishes.
🧓🏼 What the patient should do:
✔️Tell to the doctor a truth:
- about health problems (symptoms),
- about medications, those he / she uses,
- about following doctor's recommendations (yes or not);
✔️ Respect the doctor and his boundaries;
✔️ Be responsible for following the doctor's recommendations:
- prescriptions and explanations are the doctor's responsibility
- following them is the patient's responsibility;
✔️ Visit the doctor and collaborate.
Both - the doctor and the patient - are on the same team during treatment.
❤️ Good treatment is possible, if a doctor and a patient have a mutual respect and responsibility!
Sincerely yours,
Dr. Tatiana
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