2004, Number 2
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Arch Med Fam 2004; 6 (2)
Process to becoming sick person and patient: a family medicine approach
Garza ET, Ramírez AJ
Language: Spanish
References: 13
Page: 57-60
PDF size: 58.21 Kb.
ABSTRACT
When a person feels that he loses health it begins a process that locates him first as sick person and later a patient. The professionals of health, especially, family physician must learn to identify those factors that make persons to seek professional aid to recuperate or to maintain their health. The objective of this article is to deal with some of these factors that give meaning to his illness and help the patient in the process of being accepted like sick person and later as a patient. Among the most emphatic factors were: the character of the person, the nature of the illness, the family and social context where the person lives in. The phases of each ability are described and are correlated with the different ways for asking consultation. This is a useful to identify those stages of higher risk, which can derive in a conflict of physician-patient-family relationship. All these skills are part of working with families that leads family physician to a major diagnostic and effective therapeutics with a better coordination of health care problems of their patients.
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