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...common-sense notion. Well known for his work on the physiological effects experienced by practitioners of Transcendental Meditation, he has recently reviewed studies of patients suffering from angina, a severe chest pain related to heart disease. He found that when physicians were initially enthusiastic about a remedy, even if it later proved worthless by ordinary medical definition, it acted as a placebo in about 80% of all cases. Conversely, Benson says, flaws in the patient-doctor relationship may account for some of the equally puzzling unpleasant effects, including nausea, dizziness and pain itself, experienced by some people who have taken...
...former cancer patient, his wife, and their family doctor yesterday discussed their relationship, which they called "mutually gratifying" and a model in patient-doctor communication and understanding...
...Professional Standard Review Organization, as mandated by federal law, is a serious intrusion into the patient-doctor relationship. With peer review as the norm, some of the less expert medical practitioners may be selected out. But more important, the creative, humanistic, unorthodox physician will be selected out. For years, unofficial peer consensus militated against legalized abortion, home delivery, natural childbirth and the husband's presence in the delivery room...
They also believe that information gained by screening should be passed on -to blood relatives, for instance, who might then be persuaded to have examinations themselves. In an editorial accompanying the Hastings report, Boston's Dr. John Littlefield suggests that the traditional, confidential patient-doctor relationship might be less important than people's "right to know about the risks that they run, whether infectious, toxic or genetic...
...specialists become coordinated, as nurses and nonprofessional health workers take over routine hospital treatments and even diagnoses; the strategy of disease treatment will change as chronic, addictive, and social psychological diseases are identified; and new methods of medical research will apply technological advances to health care while reevaluating patient-doctor relationships. Much of this will take place in he next few years...