12. Example of a consultation
CHAPTER 12. Example of a consultation Providing a case example carries risks, none more so than the idea that there is one ideal way of proceeding. The aim here is…
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11. Calls from the consulting room
CHAPTER 11. Calls from the consulting room In this chapter: • Listening a little, helping a lot • Your emotions • Some patients like to be told what to do…
10. Learning to practice this approach
CHAPTER 10. Learning to practice this approach In this chapter: • Introduction • How do adults learn to adapt their working practices? • What impedes your learning of this approach?…
9. Common clinical encounters
CHAPTER 9. Common clinical encounters In this chapter: • Talking about smoking • Cardiac rehabilitation: lots to discuss • Encouraging safer sexual behaviors • Weight management • When the problem…
Ethical Issues in Rationing and Allocation of Limited Resources
Levels of Allocating Resources Most discussions about rationing and allocation of health resources focus on specific situations involving denial of care for patients with cancer or other terminal diseases. For…
Corruption and Informal Payments in Health Systems
Payment of Informal Fees by Patients and Their Families Informal payments are defined as payments “to individual and institutional providers, in kind or in cash, that are made outside official…
Ethical Issues in the Movement of Health Care Professionals Across National Borders
Ethical Issues in the Migration of Health Professionals Many of the physicians and nurses who care for patients in wealthy countries were born and educated in resource-poor developing countries. In…
Ethical Issues in the Movement of Patients Across National Borders
Ethical Duties to Provide Health Care to Undocumented Aliens Irregular migration is a global phenomenon. Millions of undocumented aliens live and work in dozens of countries across the globe. As…
Ethical Issues of Health Insurance and Health System Reform
Ethical Issues in Financing Health Services and Designing Insurance Systems Financing refers to the methods of raising money for health services (Roberts and others, 2008, pp. 26, 153). A variety…
Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment at the End of Life Withholding treatment refers to not beginning a particular treatment, whereas withdrawing treatment refers to stopping a treatment that has been started:…
