The dilemma of being a physician-patient.
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.
Otte
Andreas
A
Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Gent, Belgium. aotte@petaxp.rug.ac.be
Audenaert
Kurt
K
Otte
Karina
K
De Man
Stefanie
S
Dierckx
Rudi
R
D001290:Attitude; D003933:Diagnosis; D004358:Drug Therapy; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010820:Physicians; D009626:Terminology as Topic