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New Trends on Patients View on Doctors
February 13, 2008 at 7:43 PM
Lifestyle News
Published in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, the study attribute patients increased knowledge to their lifestyle and technology that influence them to make ever-increasing demands and expect to be listened to, and fully involved in clinical decisions.
During the study, Dr. J. Bohannon Mason of the Orthocarolina Hip and Knee Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, looked at the changes in society, the population and technology that might be influencing the way patients viewed their orthopaedic surgeons.
The researcher says that the patients attitude to medicine changes as they gain knowledge, and they stop showing their doctors absolute and unquestionable respect.
Demographic change, education, affluence, availability of information via the Internet, patient mobility, direct-to-consumer marketing, patient age, patient activity demands, cost pressures and physician accountability, all combined together make the practitioner face a patient who is more informed and has higher expectations than any prior generation of patients.
In todays date, patients do not simply have a medical complaint; they look for a particular operation and even a particular implant. They do not consider the doctor as the sole source of medical information.
They are bombarded with enough snippets of information to encourage a dialogue and clearly express their expectations for a particular outcome and technique to achieve that outcome. They also demand quicker recovery, return to higher-level sport activity and earlier discharge from the hospital.
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