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The doctor–patient relationship is a central part of health care and the practice of medicine. A doctor–patient relationship is formed when a doctor attends...

referred to as internists, or physicians in Commonwealth nations. Internists possess specialized skills in managing patients with undifferentiated or multi-system...

Physician–patient privilege is a legal concept, related to medical confidentiality, that protects communications between a patient and their doctor from...

the United States, a physician gag law is a law that prohibits physicians from asking their patients about whether the patient owns a gun. In some cases...

'supervising.' The term "attending physician" or "attending" also refers to the formal relationship of a hospitalized patient and their primary medic during...

Emergency physicians (often called "ER doctors" in the United States) specialize in providing care for unscheduled and undifferentiated patients of all ages...

bioethical issues, such as the concept of health, healthcare, the patient-physician relationship, and reproductive issues. There are several criticisms of feminist...

beneficence to individuals within the patient/physician relationship or the research-participant/researcher relationship. However, there is debate about the...

nature of the relationship between the parties. Most commonly, breach of confidentiality applies to the patient-physician relationship, but it can also...

physical and mental impairments. Physicians may focus their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients, and methods of treatment—known as...

mother and fetus, a physician-patient relationship is valuable as well as other maternal-fetal relationships (e.g. relationship to the father of the...

access, threatening the health and safety of our patients and jeopardizing the patient-physician relationship". The AAP has changed positions on its age limit...

also known as retainer medicine, is a relationship between a patient and a primary care physician in which the patient pays an annual fee or retainer. In...

physician services. PAs complement existing services and aid in improving patient access to health care. A relationship with a supervising physician is...

need of treatment by a physician, nurse, optometrist, dentist, veterinarian, or other health care provider. The word patient originally meant 'one who...

palliative and hospice care, and physician-assisted suicide. Decisions regarding management are made by the patient and their family, although medical...

Medical Specialties. Unlike other physicians and neurologists, psychiatrists specialize in the doctor–patient relationship and are trained to varying extents...

research on the impact of race, ethnicity and gender on the patient-physician relationship and subsequent health disparities. She is a member of the President’s...

development of systems of medical knowledge and medical care The patient-physician relationship The integration of alternative medical systems in culturally...

federal laws that prohibit physician self-referral, specifically a referral by a physician of a Medicare or Medicaid patient to an entity for the provision...