Psychology 2036A/B Chapter 4: Chapter 4 Health Communication

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Dr. Yves Bureau

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Quality of the relationship patients have with their physicians. The patients answer the questions that the physician asks about their symptoms, but the physician is responsible for determining diagnosis and treatment: physician is responsible for the thinking and decision making, asking questions would be challenging physician authority. Infection or sprain: mutual-participant model: physician and patient make joint decisions about every aspect of care, patient has more responsibility, from diagnostic tests to choice and implementation of treatment, used to (cid:271)e (cid:862)esse(cid:374)tiall(cid:455) fo(cid:396)eig(cid:374) to (cid:373)edi(cid:272)i(cid:374)e(cid:863) Assertiveness and active involvement on the part of the patient are the precursors of an effective partnership with the physician. Textbook notes: consumerist communication: physician as a consultant who answer questions rather than asking them, 8, physicians especially and patients moderately satisfied reports visits made good use of time, generation of younger patients. Increase as younger cohorts get older and develop more chronic conditions become more frequent users of health services.