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...goal is to ensure that [the revised policy] unambiguously expresses the original intent of offering students resources as they learn to navigate the patient-doctor relationship,” said Dean for Students Nancy E. Oriol in a statement...
...From the beginning, she proved to be one of our best students. What made her different was her interest in population health as well as patient-doctor relationships and care,” said Eisenberg...
Some national data on hospital performance exists already. But doctors say that certain aspects of care can't be assessed without input from the patient: treatment of pain, for instance. (About a third of HCAHPS surveyed patients said their pain was not always treated adequately.) Doctors also want to make sure that patient-doctor communication is up to par. Patients who fully understand care instructions when they leave the hospital, for example, are more likely to stay out of the emergency room down the line. In total, the HCAHPS survey asked 27 questions about patients' demographic characteristics and eight areas...
...Furthermore, at least the initial patient-doctor interaction appeared to have been similar for all patients: rates of testing for blood-sugar control and for cholesterol, for example, were the same. "That suggests the physicians are implementing standard treatment plans," says Thomas Sequist, lead author of the study and an internist at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. It's only later, when it comes to treatment and, especially, outcomes, that a disparity is evident...
...culture of the medical school is secular, with relatively little discussion of faith in social medicine and patient-doctor courses. From my experience, acknowledging a patient’s or a caregiver’s faith in actual hospital care almost never happens...