RT Book, Section
A1 Fortin, Auguste H.
A1 Dwamena, Francesca C.
A1 Frankel, Richard M.
A1 Smith, Robert C.
SR Print(0)
ID 56845660
T1 Chapter 8. The Clinician–Patient Relationship
T2 Smith's Patient-Centered Interviewing: An Evidence-Based Method, 3e
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-176000-3
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56845660
RD 2025/06/19
AB In  this  chapter,  we  will  introduce  two  advanced  aspects  of  the  medical  interview:  how  to  increase  your  personal  awareness  and  how  to  maximize  effectiveness  by  understanding  patients'  unique  personality  structures.  Working  on  both  of  these  skill  sets  will  allow  you  to  strengthen  the  clinician–patient  relationship  with  all  of  your  patients.  While  we  will  address  features  of  clinicians  and  patients  that  can  affect  the  relationship,  we  will  not  consider  more  general  determinants  such  as  the  sociocultural  matrix,  patients'  and  clinicians'  roles  and  subcultures1  (see  doc.com  Module  152),  nor  will  we  address  relationships  in  medicine  outside  the  clinician–patient  dyad,  a  wider  area  often  called  relationship-centered  or  team-based  care,3–5  such  as  relationships  among  nurses,  administrators,  clinicians,  educators,  and  community  representatives  within  a  hospital  or  outpatient  setting  (we  refer  you  to  doc.com  Module  38  for  information  on  communication  on  healthcare  teams6).