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1	The Story of Medicine: From Paternalism to Partnership Marks, Jennifer Lynn 09 January 2013 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Physicians were interviewed and asked about their perspectives on communicating with patients, media, and the ways in which the biomedical and biopsychosocial models function in the practice of medicine. Fisher’s Narrative Paradigm was the primary critical method applied to themes that emerged from the interviews. Those emergent themes included the importance of a team approach to patient care; perspectives on physicians as bad communicators; and successful communication strategies when talking to patients. Physicians rely on nurses and other support staff, but the most important partnership is that between the physician and patient. Narrative fidelity and probability are satisfied by strategies physicians use in communicating with patients: using understandable language when talking to patients; engaging in nonverbal tactics of sitting down with patients, making eye contact with patients, and making appropriate physical contact with them in the form of a handshake or a light touch on the arm. Physicians are frustrated by media’s reporting of preliminary study results that omit details as well as media’s fostering of expectations for quick diagnostic processes and magical cures within the public. Furthermore, physicians see the biomedical and biopsychosocial models becoming increasingly interdependent in the practice of medicine, which carries the story of contemporary medicine further into the realm of partnership, revealing its humanity as well as its fading paternalism. medicine physician communication patient partnership narrative story structural coherence material coherence characterological coherence Medicine -- Philosophy Interpersonal relations Physician and patient Communication in medicine Physicians -- Psychology Patients -- Psychology Conversation analysis Dialogue analysis Social interaction Physicians -- Attitudes Medicine and psychology Physicians in motion pictures Medicine in motion pictures Nonverbal communication Sense of coherence Paternalism

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