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- Title
Improving Sensitivity to Patients from Other Cultures.
- Authors
GUPTA, VIDYA BHUSHAN
- Abstract
The article focuses on the need for family physicians to consider the culture of their patients based on a case of a 41-year-old Indian woman who had leukorrhea and was uncomfortable discussing her genitourinary problem with a male physician. The author suggests that physicians first study their patients' values, biases and beliefs to establish rapport and make them comfortable. Different cultures have also different ways of greeting, especially among Muslim women or those from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh who are prohibited to shake hands with men.
- Subjects
CULTURE; CULTURAL values; PHYSICIAN-patient relations; LEUKORRHEA; WOMEN patients; HANDSHAKING; MUSLIM women; FAMILY medicine
- Publication
American Family Physician, 2010, Vol 82, Issue 1, p28
- ISSN
0002-838X
- Publication type
Article