Commentary: patient well-being and individual outcomes in the medical practice: impulses from philosophy

In an everyday private practice setting, regularly also existential topics will emerge from doctor-patient encounters. These are often questions of coping with life and lifestyle. To enable a thorough discussion of such topics, an implicit, and sometimes also explicit reference to a philosophical ba...

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Published in:Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM, 2019-01, Vol.14 (1), p.2-2, Article 2
Main Authors: Rüter, Gernot, Fröhlich, Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alcohol
Death
Doctor-patient relationship
Evidence-based medicine
Existential issues
Existentialism
Humans
Medical practices
Medicine
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
Patients - psychology
Personal Satisfaction
Philosophical concepts
Philosophy
Philosophy, Medical
Physician-Patient Relations
Physicians
Psychological aspects
Religious beliefs
Well being
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Summary:In an everyday private practice setting, regularly also existential topics will emerge from doctor-patient encounters. These are often questions of coping with life and lifestyle. To enable a thorough discussion of such topics, an implicit, and sometimes also explicit reference to a philosophical background is needed. Philosophical concepts to be used in this realm are discussed. An individual patient-doctor interaction is used as an example to demonstrate the doctor's choice of hermeneutical and phenomenological philosophical concepts.
ISSN:1747-5341
1747-5341
DOI:10.1186/s13010-019-0071-x