Patriarchs on pedestals? How doctors are taught to improve their bedside manner
- Written by Mark Wilson, Associate professor, University of Wollongong
Student doctors need good role models to learn good patient communication. from www.shutterstock.comUp until around 30 years ago, in the days of paper patient files, doctors were on pedestals and patients generally did as they were told, in a more patriarchal model of patient care. Over 2,400 years ago, Hippocrates wrote:
The physician ought also...