Professionalism, fidelity and relationship-preservation : navigating disagreement and frustration in clinical encounters

In February 2012, The Wall Street Journal summarized cases and research documenting growth in the numbers of physicians who ask families to leave their practices due to parental refusal of vaccines for pediatric patients. (1) Some physicians ask families to leave because they feel that they have a professional obligation to maintain a standard of care that is unattainable when parents refuse vaccines for their children. Others struggle with how to maintain a therapeutic relationship with a child whose parents' health beliefs conflict with vaccine schedule recommendations. Additionally, one social and cultural trend that seems to influence physician-family relationships in these cases is "anti-intellectualism." I consider some important challenges these issues pose for professionalism in the physician-family relationship, and consider a few values helpful in configuring responses to those challenges.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2013

Erschienen:

2013

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics - 9(2013), 8 vom: 24. Aug., Seite 1812-4

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rentmeester, Christy A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Communication,clinical
Ethics
Fidelity
Journal Article
Pediatrics
Physician-family relationship
Physician-parent relationship
Professionalism
Review
Vaccinology

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 06.05.2014

Date Revised 21.10.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.4161/hv.24432

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM226534995