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Medical students' perceptions of their learning about the doctor-patient relationship: a qualitative study.

OBJECTIVE: To describe and discuss Year 5 medical students' perceptions of their own learning about the doctor-patient relationship. METHODS: We carried out a qualitative study of semi-structured interviews with 16 Year 5 medical students using 3-way analysis at the School of Medicine, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. RESULTS: For experiences at the pre-clinical stage, the subcategories were: positive aspects of the medical psychology course; great distance between theory and reality, and strong desire for clinical practice. For experiences at the clinical stage, the subcategories were: demand for opportunities to discuss the doctor-patient relationship; teachers as either role models or anti-models; clinical situations favourable for developing empathic relationships, and clinical situations unfavourable for developing empathic relationships. For views about future experiences, the subcategories were: apprehension about ethical behaviour; anxiety about handling patients' psychosocial characteristics, and fear of professional ethics cases or legal action. DISCUSSION: To compensate for the lack of practical activities during the pre-clinical stage, students search for extracurricular activities that often overload them. Because teachers function as professional role models, their attitudes towards patients have great importance. Students fear not being able to maintain their empathic capacity in the future because of work-related issues. Knowledge of the psychological aspects of the doctor-patient relationship helps students to comprehend their experiences. Gradual contact between student and medical practice from the beginning of the course is advised. It should be followed by interdisciplinary discussions that deal with the technical aspects of cases and the doctor-patient relationship.

Adult↗

The new Russian law on psychiatric care.

On July 2, 1992, President Boris Yeltsin signed into effect a law that has the potential for advancing human rights of psychiatric clients in the Russian Federation. The author provides a comparative analysis of the U.S. and Russian psychiatric laws, demonstrating a striking similarity of the laws in terms of substance and scope.

Cross-Cultural Comparison↗

Legal aspects of withholding treatment from handicapped newborns: substantive issues.

The controversy over nontreatment of handicapped newborns arises in a context of criminal and civil law, against which the current controversy has unfolded. This article examines the legal setting and background under traditional criminal and civil law concepts of nontreatment of handicapped newborns. It focuses on substantive principles of law, showing that nontreatment would be legally permitted when treatment could not be reasonably said to be in the interest of the patient involved, and that nontreatment could be considered criminal where treatment would serve patient interests. It then relates this analysis to procedural issues and the federal Baby Doe legislation and regulations that have recently emerged.

Abnormalities, Multiple↗

Three meanings of capacity; or, why the federal government is most likely to lead on insurance access issues.

This essay considers on what health policy issues the federal government is best able to lead. Positive leadership requires knowledge, power, and will. The federal government has different supplies of each for different aspects of quality of, cost of, and access to health care. Here I review technical capacity to attain desired ends, define the institutional strengths and weaknesses of the federal government, and outline current dynamics of the national political process. This analysis suggests both prospects for and some characteristics of successful policy. The federal government is more likely to lead on insurance than on other health policy issues because its supply of relevant knowledge and power is relatively high on insurance issues and the political barriers are lower than conventional wisdom suggests. But that leadership could take the form of either the expanding or contracting of access to insurance.

Decision Making, Organizational↗

Consumer attitudes toward health policy and knowledge about health legislation.

Consumer attitudes toward key issues affecting health policy decisions in the local community have been ignored both by local health policy makers and by medical sociologists. The authors report an empirical analysis of: (1) consumer attitudes towards federal intervention in health care; (2) consumer perceptions of the free market philosophy of health providers; (3) consumer perceptions of their involvement in health policy making; (4) consumer confidence in present systems of health services delivery; and (5) consumer awareness of recent major health legislation. It was found that consumers are poorly informed about recent health care legislation. The authors compared the attitudes of consumers with those held by local hospital board members toward health policy issues. The differences for all comparisons were statistically significant. The authors argue that hospital board members attribute problems in health services delivery to demand dysfunctions while consumers perceive the problems to be a result of supply dysfunctions. Thus, failure to include consumers on health policy boards guarantees the absence of a solution-oriented dialogue and promotes the continuing predominance of a provider-biased ideology.

Attitude to Health↗

[Comparative study of patients with tuberculosis with and without HIV infection in the Federal District].

The main aim of this paper is to study the degree of association between the variables: HIV positive and negative tuberculosis patients, in relation to the location and extension of tuberculosis lesion and also to observe whether there is or not an agreement in distribution of tuberculosis disease between male and female groups, infected or not by HIV, according to their age. Seventy-eight tuberculosis/HIV positive and 2950 tuberculosis patients without HIV between 1985 and 1992 have been analyzed. The data have been collected directly from the files kept at Hemocentro and Instituto de Saude do Distrito Federal, Brasilia-DF Brazil. Statistical analysis using the X-squared and Kolmogorov Smirnov's tests have been applied. It has been observed a significant increase in the cases of pulmonary cavity and not cavity moderate tuberculosis among the tuberculosis/HIV positive patients when compared with the ones only infected with tuberculosis. In the age group below 40 years old, the male presented a higher incidence of cases when compared with the ones without HIV. In the age group below 34 years old, women showed a significative increase of the disease, when compared to men in the same age group.

AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections↗

National response to the nursing shortage: implications for nursing education.

The nursing shortage has been addressed at multiple levels in both the private and public sectors. This article offers an overview of the federal and organizational responses and an analysis of the implications for nursing education. Several initiatives being used by various schools of nursing to enhance their regional response are presented. In addition, the author also offers several recommendations designed to ensure that nursing education remains in a leadership position in the designing and implementation of initiatives that influence our outcomes.

Education, Nursing↗

United they thrive: merger of two healthcare systems.

On March 15, 1987, the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration of Colorado Springs and the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati agreed to consolidate. It marked the culmination of years of building mutual trust and months of intense negotiations. The Sisters of St. Francis realized in 1983 that some major decisions had to be made regarding the future direction of its healthcare ministry because of rapid changes within the healthcare industry and declining numbers of Franciscan sisters working in healthcare. In January 1986 leaders of the two institutes and their healthcare systems sat down for the first time to discuss issues surrounding the collaborative effort and to recommend a list of objectives, including joint ventures in various areas. Other recommendations included the formation of a joint steering council to direct the collaborative effort and the formation of a Colorado Springs Task Force to end the rivalry existing between two local hospitals--one Franciscan-sponsored, the other Charity-sponsored. Additional hurdles included finding an affiliation model that all parties would accept (the one endorsed allows the Sisters of St. Francis to continue to exercise substantial control over the future of its healthcare institutions but gives the Sisters of Charity Health Care System much of the operational control); due diligence reviews of legal and financial documents; canonical review; detailed financial analysis; review of all state and federal regulatory requirements, including antitrust; and educating and preparing members of the Franciscan Healthcare Corporation.

Catholicism↗