The dilemma of being a physician-patient

Med Sci Monit. 2003 Apr;9(4):SR20-2.

Abstract

Being either a physician or a relative to a physician on the occasion of having a disease needing help from another physician, the physician-patient situation, can trigger some problems which are different from the normal doctor-patient relationship. Some aspects of this are an incorrect diagnostic approach (either hyper- or hypo-diagnostics) and an inadequate therapeutic regimen. Others are mainly based on the peer situation of the two parties involved. Awareness of the special physician-patient situation in the treating physician could be one step out of the dilemma.

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Attitude
  • Diagnosis
  • Drug Therapy
  • Humans
  • Physician-Patient Relations*
  • Physicians
  • Terminology as Topic