Historical views of the patient-physician relationship assumed that the physician's role was
to act in the best interests of the patient and to direct care and make decisions about …

How reasonable are expectations that patients will participate in care decisions? The
previous article in this series reviewed models of the patient-physician relationship and …

Practicing physicians must frequently make decisions about how much they wish to
encourage patient participation in clinical decision-making and how to respond to rational …

Optimalcommunication between primarycare physiciansand consultants includes trans-fer of
relevant clinical information, including the patient's perspectives and values, and provides a …

The Future of Care To ensure that the patient–physician relationship remains central to
medical practice, it is critical both to enable physicians to spend adequate time with patients …

The traditional style of medical decision-making in which doctors take sole responsibility for
treatment decisions is being challenged. Attempts are being made to promote shared …

What do patients want from their physicians? This article reviews research on the role of the
physician attained through surveys of the public and of physicians. The results from the two …

Abstract Models of doctor-patient relations vary between “paternalistic” and “informative.”
The paternalistic model emphasizes doctors' authority; alternative models allow patients to …

Power in relationships between doctors and patients has undergone scrutiny as interest in
medical consumerism and patients' rights has increased. Transfer of expert power from …

DURING the last two decades or so, there has been a struggle over the patient's role in
medical decision making that is often characterized as a conflict between autonomy and …