The malpractice crisis and the doctor-patient relationship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2250902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ellen Annandale (0000-0002-0607-0435, corresponding author), Ellen C Annandale |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-23 |
| Publication date | 1989-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9566.1989.tb00040.x |
| PMID | 10303745 |
| OpenAlex | W4240431893, W2003482620 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 46 |
The current medical malpractice crisis in the United States provides an opportunity to explore the medical profession's response to threats to its autonomy of practice. Drawing on commentary in medical journals, I reveal the way in which physicians, and some lawyers, have explicitly targeted doctor‐patient interaction as a seat for malpractice reform. A good deal of attention is being given to developing a better rapport with patients, providing information and involving the patient in decision‐making about care. Such reforms should be welcomed. But any benefits need to be weighed against the possibility that changes in the doctor‐patient relationship may also have a covert purpose; as reform is focused at the interactional level, attention is drawn away from medical practice to the patient as the source of negligent injury. This can have negative consequences for patients who, in responding to this interactional gloss, may fail to gain compensation for the real errors of medical practice
Autonomy · Compensation (psychology · Covert · Doctor–patient relationship · Malpractice · Medical education · Medical malpractice · Medical practice · Political science · Psychiatry · Ethics in medical practice · Healthcare cost, quality, practices · Law · Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues · Medicine · Nursing · Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Continuity of Midwifery Care in England
Factors affecting perceptions of medical errors
Doing diagnosis
Harmed patients gaining voice
Telling cultures
Doctors on the Medical Profession
The sociology of chronic illness
Risk of Malpractice Claims and Changes in Professional Autonomy
Risk in pregnancy and birth
It's sometimes hard to tell what patients are playing at
Working on the Front-Line
The promotion of private health insurance and its implications for the social organisation of healthcare
Communication and Medical Practice
Consumerism in medicine
Power
Forgive and Remember
Corporatization and the Social Transformation of Doctoring
The Sociology of Health and Illness
Doctors, Patients, and Health Insurance
Physician's Perceptions of the Suit-Prone Patient
Dealing with Medical Malpractice
A Marxian interpretation of the growth and development of coronary care technology
The Reorganization of the Medical Profession
Professional Dominance
Information control and the exercise of power in the obstetrical encounter
The patient's view
Medicine as an Institution of Social Control
Dimensions of patient control in a free-standing birth center
The Birth of the Clinic
Physicians' Communication Style and Patient Satisfaction
The Function of the Professional's Affective Behavior in Client Satisfaction
Some Contingencies of the Moral Evaluation and Control of Clientele
| Citations per year | 0.57 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1991 - 2018 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |