title: The dilemma of being a physician-patient.
abstract: Being either a physician or a relative to a physician on the occasion of having a disease needing help from another physician, the physician-patient situation, can trigger some problems which are different from the normal doctor-patient relationship. Some aspects of this are an incorrect diagnostic approach (either hyper- or hypo-diagnostics) and an inadequate therapeutic regimen. Others are mainly based on the peer situation of the two parties involved. Awareness of the special physician-patient situation in the treating physician could be one step out of the dilemma.
authors.affiliation: Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Gent, Belgium. aotte@petaxp.rug.ac.be
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Otte
authors.forename: Kurt
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Audenaert
authors.forename: Karina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Otte
authors.forename: Stefanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: De Man
authors.forename: Rudi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dierckx
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D003933:Diagnosis; D004358:Drug Therapy; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010820:Physicians; D009626:Terminology as Topic