["And when the patient becomes silent in his pain..." The medical consultation and its integral significance].
The medical dialogue constitutes the basis of every doctor-patient relationship and it consists of more parts. The diagnostical dialogue comprises of a symptome-oriented and of a problem-oriented part. In the symptom-oriented part there have to be as many as possible symptoms systematically ascertained to come to a diagnosis, in the problem-oriented part the dialogue must be quite free to enable the patients to realise their problems without them getting the feeling of having been influenced. In the therepeutic part of the dialogue the problem has to take shape and the possibilities of its solution has to be discussed. The decision should be made by the patient.
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Psychiatrischen Universitätsklinik Basel.
D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011340:Problem Solving; D011613:Psychotherapy; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology; D000092864:Suicide Prevention