"You become a slightly better doctor": Doctors adopting integrated medical expertise through interactions with E-patients.
Journal
Social science & medicine (1982)
ISSN: 1873-5347
Titre abrégé: Soc Sci Med
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8303205
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
07 2022
07 2022
Historique:
received:
19
10
2021
revised:
05
05
2022
accepted:
12
05
2022
pubmed:
23
5
2022
medline:
22
6
2022
entrez:
22
5
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The accessibility of information via the internet has radically altered the doctor-patient relationship. By means of in-depth interviews with Israeli physicians from four different specialties, this study explored how physicians cope with internet-informed patients, referred to as e-patients, and examined how they make sense of their new professional roles. Findings show that three types of boundaries in the doctor-patient relationship have been blurred by the emergence of the e-patient: the boundaries between doctors' and patients' knowledge, between doctors' authority and patients' autonomy, and between positivistic knowledge and humanistic knowledge. Each of these is a boundary between liberal and non-liberal values. Only the combination of all these components produces, according to the participants, a good doctor. I call this new phenomenon integrated medical expertise and explain how it diverges from previous notions of 'good doctoring'.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35598443
pii: S0277-9536(22)00344-6
doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115038
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
115038Informations de copyright
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