Beyond the Protocol: The Potential of Person Centred Care
Keywords:
Epilepsy, Patient Report, Physician-Patient Relations, Person-centred Approach
Abstract
A patient report is given of a young, poorly supported father with recurrent seizures who was helped by a caring, person-orientated physician. If the traditional disease-orientated approach had been used, many potential avenues of help would have been unexplored. The value of applying some of the primary principles in the family medicine is illustrated by following this patient's history.
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Case studies
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