Values in conflict: hospital culture shock.
The individual who becomes a patient brings to the health care setting needs, values, and life style founded on highly individualistic personal history and experience. The process of health care and the manner in which it is negotiated is largely controlled by the health professional. Success or failure of treatment and ultimate progress of the patient may depend upon resolution of a fundamental conflict of values between patient and care-giver.
D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012803:Sick Role; D012945:Social Values