Doctors and Patients - can the relationship be saved?


	Doctors and Patients - can the relationship be saved?

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7-13-2008 9:46 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7defc39f-812e-42d6-bb20-4f4df5f7cfe3/03A9B0C6-0A9E-473E-8A28-7AC7CB0DDA8E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.examiner.com/x-209-Baltimore-Health-Examiner~y2008m7d2-Doctors-and-Patients--can-the-relationship-be-saved?cid=exrss-Baltimore-Health-Examiner" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-209-Baltimore-Health-Examiner~y2008m7d2-Doctors-and-Patients--can-the-relationship-be-saved?cid=exrss-Baltimore-Health-Examiner" style="font-size: 11px;">www.examiner.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-209-Baltimore-Health-Examiner~y2008m7d2-Doctors-and-Patients--can-the-relationship-be-saved?cid=exrss-Baltimore-Health-Examiner">Doctors and Patients - can the relationship be saved?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-209-Baltimore-Health-Examiner~y2008m7d2-Doctors-and-Patients--can-the-relationship-be-saved?cid=exrss-Baltimore-Health-Examiner"><DIV> 
<DIV id="hidefrompromo"><IMG height="209" width="250" alt="" src="http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/Image/mobile-clinic-patient-sm.jpg" /><BR /> 				<BR /> </DIV>Are doctors and patients heading for divorce court?  </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-209-Baltimore-Health-Examiner~y2008m7d2-Doctors-and-Patients--can-the-relationship-be-saved?cid=exrss-Baltimore-Health-Examiner"><DIV>Something has gone terribly wrong in our medical system.  The doctor-patient relationship, the keystone of medical care, has soured, and both the quality and spirit of medicine has been tainted.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-209-Baltimore-Health-Examiner~y2008m7d2-Doctors-and-Patients--can-the-relationship-be-saved?cid=exrss-Baltimore-Health-Examiner"><DIV>Remember Marcus Welby?  He genuinely enjoyed his patients and they showered him with love and cookies.  There was warmth and trust and mutual respect permeating his office.  That was the model that I, and many of my fellow medical students, kept in our minds as we endured hellish nights on call and humiliating grilling by our superiors.  Once our grueling training was over, we imagined, we would bask in our patients’ admiration and gratitude as we healed the sick and comforted the dying.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-209-Baltimore-Health-Examiner~y2008m7d2-Doctors-and-Patients--can-the-relationship-be-saved?cid=exrss-Baltimore-Health-Examiner"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.examiner.com/img/319AB381-5165-467A-9579-091EC1B793A0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-209-Baltimore-Health-Examiner~y2008m7d2-Doctors-and-Patients--can-the-relationship-be-saved?cid=exrss-Baltimore-Health-Examiner">In the 15 years since my med school graduation, I have noticed an increasing and disturbing disconnect between patients and doctors</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/03A9B0C6-0A9E-473E-8A28-7AC7CB0DDA8E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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