Patient-Centred Antenatal Care
Keywords:
Pregnancy, Prenatal Care, Physicians, Family, Physician- Patient Relations
Abstract
Routine antenatal care (the type of care taught at our medical schools, and which consentrate on disease and not on the person with the disease) fails to recognise the widely differing need; of the individual woman. With a patient, centred approach, the doctor can create an opportunity (perhaps the only one! ) for the pregnant to talk about her feelings and fears and help her address them positively. This change of attitude towards pregnancy may have a remarkable influence on the outcome of pregnancy. A patient history is given to illustrate the approach.
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