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- Title
The Secret Drama at the Patient’s Bedside—Refusal of Treatment Because of the Practitioner’s Ethnic Identity: The Medical Staff ’s Point of View.
- Authors
Popper-Giveon, Ariela; Keshet, Yael
- Abstract
Patients’ refusal of treatment based on the practitioner’s ethnic identity reveals a clash of values: neutrality in medicine versus patient-centered care. Taking the Israeli–Palestinian conflict into account, this article aims at examining Israeli health care professionals’ points of view concerning patients’ refusal of treatment because of a practitioner’s ethnic identity. Fifty in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 managers and 40 health care professionals, Jewish and Arab, employed at 11 public hospitals. Most refusal incidents recorded are unidirectional: Jewish patients refusing to be treated by Arab practitioners. Refusals are usually directed toward nurses and junior medical staff members, especially if recognizable as religious Muslims. Refusals are often initiated by the patients’ relatives and occur more frequently during periods of escalation in the conflict. The structural competency approach can be applied to increase awareness of the role of social determinants in shaping patients’ ethnic-based treatment refusals and to improve the handling of such incidents.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; PATIENT refusal of treatment; RACISM; ARABS; ATTITUDE (Psychology); INTERVIEWING; JEWS; PHENOMENOLOGY; MEDICAL cooperation; MEDICAL personnel; PUBLIC hospitals; RESEARCH; RESEARCH funding; PATIENTS' attitudes; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Qualitative Health Research, 2018, Vol 28, Issue 5, p711
- ISSN
1049-7323
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1049732318755676