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- Title
The Doctor Will See You Shortly: The Ethical Significance of Time for the Patient-Physician Relationship.
- Authors
Braddock, III, Clarence H.; Snyder, Lois
- Abstract
Many physicians and health care leaders express concern about the amount of time available for clinical practice. While debates rage on about how much time is truly available, the perception that time is inadequate is now pervasive. This perception has ethical significance, because it may cause clinicians to forego activities and behaviors that promote important aspects of the patient physician relationship, to shortcut shared decision making, and to tall short of obligations to act as patient advocates. Furthermore, perceived time constraints can hinder the just distribution of physician time. Although creating more time in the clinical encounter would certainly address these ethical concerns, specific strategies—many of which do not take significantly more time—can effectively change the perception that time is inadequate. These approaches are critical lot clinicians and health systems to maintain their ethical commitments and simultaneously deal with the realities of time.
- Subjects
PHYSICIAN-patient relations; PHYSICIANS; MEDICAL care; MEDICAL ethics; TIME management; MEDICAL personnel
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2005, Vol 20, Issue 11, p1057
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1525-1497.2005.00217.x