Doctor-Patient Relationship Between Individuals With Fibromyalgia and Rheumatologists in Public and Private Health Care in Mexico
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The aim of this article was to describe and analyze the doctor-patient relationship between fibromyalgia patients and rheumatologists in public and private health care contexts within the Mexican health care system. This medical anthropological study drew on hospital ethnography and patients' illness narratives, as well as the experiences of rheumatologists from both types of health care services. The findings show how each type of medical care subsystem shape different relationships between patients and doctors. Patient stigmatization, overt rejection, and denial of the disease's existence were identified. In this doctor-patient-with-fibromyalgia relationship, there are difficult encounters, rather than difficult patients. These encounters are more fluid in private consultations compared with public hospitals. The doctor-centered health care model is prevalent in public institutions. In the private sector, we find the characteristics of the patient-centered model coexisting with the traditional physician-centered approach
Family medicine · Fibromyalgia · Health care · Physical therapy · Political science · Private practice · Public health · Qualitative research · Sociology · Empathy and Medical Education · Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research · Medical and Biological Sciences · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Gerontology
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Personal Experience of Illness
The American College of Rheumatology Preliminary Diagnostic Criteria for Fibromyalgia and Measurement of Symptom Severity
Prenatal Care Use Among Women of Low Income
Medication and the patient–doctor relationship
Struggling for Dignity
Patient-centredness
Patient centred medicine
Patient Power and Control
Biomedicine globalized and localized
Physicians' communication and perceptions of patients
Women's Experiences of Stigma in Relation to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia
Doctor-patient communication and the quality of care
Illness experience in fibromyalgia syndrome
Ideal versus reality
It is hard work behaving as a credible patient
Creating meaning in fibromyalgia syndrome
Hospital ethnography
Central Problems in Social Theory
Theoretical Considerations for the Study of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Framing the doctor-patient relationship in chronic illness
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