Timeliness – care is wanted “immediately” Kindness – “in the days before health insurance, patients paid for care that consisted primarily of kindness” Hope and certainty – even in dire situations, patients “want to have hope and be offered options that might help”
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What do people really want from their doctors?
3 YES! This means that you DEFINITELY want or need this from treatment. FOR EXAMPLE: Consider item #1 which says, "I want to receive detoxification." If you definitely do NOT want or need to receive detoxification, you would circle 0. If you are UNSURE whether you want or need detoxification, you would circle 1. If you DO want detoxification, you would circle 2.
How can therapy help me?
May 27, 2013 · With all the treatment options out there, you can probably get most of the services you want, you just need to know what to ask for. This list of treatment options should help you with this.1. Print off the list and circle any items you know (or think) you want. Then, with your list in hand, when contacting drug rehabs or other treatment providers, you can ask for specific …
How can Physicians help patients choose the right treatment?
Responses ranged from "Caring about me more than just in the appointment" to "That everyone should see exactly what medical treatment costs." A qualitative analysis revealed that all responses fell into 2 overarching categories: health care at the interpersonal level and health care at the system level.
What do patients prefer in a treatment plan?
Dec 24, 2011 · Timeliness – care is wanted “immediately” Kindness – “in the days before health insurance, patients paid for care that consisted primarily of kindness” Hope and certainty – even in dire situations,...
What is the highest priority in healthcare?
Highest priority: Restoring health when ill – “the majority of patients focus on relieving illness and symptoms rather than disease prevention”. Timeliness – care is wanted “immediately”. Kindness – “in the days before health insurance, patients paid for care that consisted primarily of kindness”. Hope and certainty – even in dire situations, ...
What are conflicts of interest?
Conflicts of interest – patients are less concerned about motivation of provider in prescribing particular treatments “as long as the service helps make them better without increasing the costs they have to bear”. Real costs – “individual patients have virtually no interest in costs they do not bear”.
Why do people seek therapy?
Commonly, people will seek therapy because they are experiencing depression, anxiety, relational problems, or another issue that is causing them some distress.
Why is therapy important?
Therapy can be a wonderful tool to help people live happy, fulfilling lives. Therapy addresses a wide range of mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and grief, but therapy can also be used for purposes other than immediate mental health concerns. For example, if you are struggling with the stress of a new career, ...
Why is it important to take HIV medication?
Taking HIV medication consistently, as prescribed, helps prevent drug resistance. Drug resistance develops when people with HIV are inconsistent with taking their HIV medication as prescribed. The virus can change (mutate) and will no longer respond to certain HIV medication. If you develop drug resistance, it will limit your options ...
How long does it take to get rid of HIV?
There is no effective cure for HIV. But with proper medical care, you can control HIV. Most people can get the virus under control within six months. Taking HIV medicine does not prevent transmission ...
Can HIV be transmitted through sex?
If you have an undetectable viral load, you have effectively no risk of transmitting HIV to an HIV-negative partner through sex. Having an undetectable viral load may also help prevent transmission from injection drug use.
Can I take pills at work?
A busy schedule. Work or travel away from home can make it easy to forget to take pills. It may be possible to keep extra medicine at work or in your car. But talk to your health care provider first. Some medications are affected by extreme temperatures and it is not always possible to keep medications at work.
Can you take a medicine if you missed it?
Missing a dose. In most cases, you can take your medicine as soon as you realize you missed a dose. Then take the next dose at your usual scheduled time (unless your pharmacist or health care provider has told you something different).
Does HIV harm the immune system?
HIV will continue to harm your immune system. This will put you at higher risk for developing AIDS. Learn more about AIDS and opportunistic infections. This will put you at higher risk for transmitting HIV to your sexual and injection partners.
What is the best thing a family can do?
When family members understand they are powerless over their loved one’s addiction, they’ve taken the first step towards helping their loved one. Many families try hard to help. But as they try, they often enable their loved one in the process.
Do families send loved ones to treatment?
So sometimes families do send their loved one to treatment in an appropriate way, but sometimes they push them when they’re not ready and the person is resentful early in recovery. Most of what we tell families is to give the addict room to recover. Certainly talk about the problem, but don’t try to micro manage it.
Abstract
Introduction
Methods
- This was a cross sectional descriptive study based on semi-structured interviews. The study population was comprised of individuals recruited from four different settings in Washington, D.C.: coffee shops, metro stops, senior centers, and community centers. Over a 3-week period in October-November 2013, a convenience sample of adults over age 18 were approached by the p…
Results
- Fifty-one subjects of the 57 approached (90%) agreed to be interviewed. Among the respondents, twenty-eight were female; 23 were male. Ages varied from 20-89. Sixteen were recruited from cafes, 11 from metro stops, 12 from senior centers, and 12 from community centers. Other demographic information, such as socioeconomic status, race, and primary language spoken, w…
Discussion
- The most striking finding of our study of what people want from their health care is that every participant answered this question as to what they wanted from the doctor. This confirms anecdotal reports that people understand medical care as the interaction with their doctor, and with growing research on the importance of shared-decision making in medicine. [8] As policym…
Conclusions
- Our use of an innovative methodology of the “street study” finds that people perceive health care as the interaction with their doctor. What people want from their health care goes to the core of the doctor-patient relationship. Doctors need to listen, to care and be compassionate, and to be transparent and open with patients. They need to be acces...
Acknowledgments
- The authors wish to thank the individuals who contributed their time to taking part in the interview.
References
- Institute of Medicine. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2001. ↩
- Choksi DA, Schectman GS, Agarwal M. Patient-centered innovation: the VA approach. Health Care. 2013; 1(3): 72-75. ↩
- Bendapudi NM, Berry LL, Frey KA, et al. Patients’ perspectives on ideal physician behaviors. …
- Institute of Medicine. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2001. ↩
- Choksi DA, Schectman GS, Agarwal M. Patient-centered innovation: the VA approach. Health Care. 2013; 1(3): 72-75. ↩
- Bendapudi NM, Berry LL, Frey KA, et al. Patients’ perspectives on ideal physician behaviors. Mayo Clin Proc. 2006; 81(3): 338-44. ↩
- Williams S, Weinman J, Dale J. Doctor-patient communication and patient satisfaction: a review. Fam Pract. 1998; 15(5): 480-92. ↩
