Valdez-Martínez E, Bedolla M, Rico R

Language: Spanish
References: 14
Page: 574-589
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ABSTRACT

Objective. To examine the nature and level of physician involvement during a clinical encounter with a patient with a chronic condition, such as AIDS, and to explore how it is understood and constructed by them. Material and methods. Qualitative design with participant observation and semi-structured interviews, with physicians and patients, conducted in hospitals of Social Security Institutions in Mexico City. Data were analyzed using the constant comparative method developed in the grounded theory tradition. The emergent themes studied were the dynamics of the encounters, levels of participation of the physician, and attitudes of both participants. Results. Irrespective of whether patients were seen for the first time, or subsequently, in outpatient consultation or in hospital, the physician focused on the solution of the biological problem and on the performance of a work commitment with the Institution. Conclusion. This study highlights the need to strengthen the incorporation of the ethics into daily clinical practice in order to transform a physician-patient relationship which is merely bureaucratic, focused on the solution of a biological problem and on the fulfillment of an institutional commitment, into a relationship which is truly professional and at the service of the patient.

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