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A hospital stands out from other man-made institutions in that it is a place of special human relationships. This specialness is caused by the fact of entrusting the life and health of one person to the skills and knowledge of another. The patient-doctor relationship...

The book covers the entirety of ethical issues occurring in modern medicine and all the issues that a doctor may encounter in their daily work, in particular: pain and suffering, terminal illness, transplantation and organ donation,...

This paper addresses the narrative nature of medical case reports as a factor affecting the coherence of this specialist genre. The paper will show that case reports consist of a fixed sequence of individual...

The progress of modern biomedical science, which has disenchanted so many mysteries and myths, need not ultimately mean the complete victory of biotechnology over culture. Humans, notwithstanding the spectacular biomedical revolutions that have been taking place for several decades, still...

Narrative medicine, by focusing on the individuality of the patient, is a response to the objective treatment of the patient reducing him or her to the sum of bio-medical phenomena while ignoring the psycho-social and cultural aspect of his or her functioning. The practice of narrative ...

Narrative medicine shies away from conventional models of the 'doctor-patient relationship' and instead invites a fascinating exploration of the dynamics of the encounter. It reminds us that it is only when we allow ourselves to move beyond the clichés arising from assertive strategies that we...

This paper is a summary of considerations related to the topic of communication in a helping situation. The topic related to the communication aspect is very often addressed by professionals from many fields, but it is still a relevant issue and there are no practical...

The transformations taking place in the modern healthcare system have affected various areas of functioning, including a change in the doctor-patient relationship. There are increasing demands on medical personnel in the area of interpersonal relations with patients of institutions....

Heart failure (HF) is defined clinically as a syndrome in which a patient presents with typical subjective symptoms (e.g. dyspnoea, swelling around the ankles and fatigue) and physical symptoms (e.g. elevated jugular venous pressure, crackles over the lung fields and...

One of the main treatment methods in oncology is radiotherapy. The knowledge of patients treated with radiotherapy about this procedure is still insufficient. This can result in dysfunctional beliefs about radiotherapy and fear of this treatment method....

Communication is inherent in the transfer of information between people. The basic components include: receiver, sender, channel and noise. There are many factors that disrupt and impede the communication process is stress. It is.

Communication is based on the intentional exchange of signs (symbols) undertaken to enhance cooperation or the sharing of meaning between partners. It takes place on many levels - from intrapersonal, to interpersonal (involving a group of people),...

Alzheimer's disease involves the progressive breakdown of brain function in the clinical picture of a dementia syndrome. In addition to marked memory loss, there are impairments in thinking, language function, emotional life and logical reasoning. As the disease progresses, the patient ...

The subject matter of the study is related to the author's interest in doctor-patient relationships, in the description of which he used his experience as an academic doctor and patient. The basis for these considerations is a survey, the fruit of which is a questionnaire study of several doctors -...

This article is devoted to the presentation and analysis of the results of a hospital-based study on interpersonal communication among doctors. The aim of the article is to show the important role of proper communication among medical staff in the process of making...