Jürgen Habermas – MeaningWell

Thursday Review: “Patients’ unvoiced agendas in general practice consultations: qualitative study”

In the discussions about how to bring the humanities into medicine, one essential feature often gets lost. The attempts to make care more human and more humane aren’t being done for the sake of warm fuzzies. There are concrete ways medical outcomes suffer when healthcare practitioners and patients aren’t communicating well. Writing in The BMJ, […]

May 3, 2018By meaningwell Thursday Review authority, autonomy, communicative action, diagnosis, health outcomes, Jürgen Habermas, narrative complexity, patient agenda, patient-centered communication, personal expectations, prescription, structure, symptoms

Thursday Review: “Challenges to physician-patient communication about medication use”

Do Patients Actually Take Their Medications? There is a growing drive to move healthcare, specifically the doctor-patient relationship, from a “benevolent paternalism”1, 2 to a system where patient and physician co-create a treatment plan which gives the patient both the best health outcome and the best quality of life. By most indications, that drive to […]

September 21, 2017By meaningwell Thursday Review communicative action, healthcare costs, Jürgen Habermas, medical culture, medication, nonadherence, nonconcordance, pharmaceutical industry, physician-patient collaboration, power relationships, prescription