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Patient-physician communication: a selective literature review
S D Harder1, P Kelly, E Dunkelblau
1Federal Government of Canada, Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Ontario.
Abstract:
No longer are patients willing to accept the dictum of physicians as all-knowing experts solely capable of determining a patient's future. In fact, the "patient" label itself is often superseded by the concept of healthcare consumers, implying greater equality and patient participation in the patient-physician relationship.