Malpractice Prevention Through the Sharing of Uncertainty: Informed Consent and the Therapeutic Alliance
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Gutheil, Thomas G.
Bursztajn, Harold
Brodsky, Archie
Bibliographic Citation
New England Journal of Medicine. 1984 Jul 5; 311(1): 49-51.
Abstract
Physicians are urged to stop thinking of informed consent as a mere formality for avoiding malpractice litigation, and instead to perceive it as an opportunity to transform clinical uncertainty from a threat to the doctor-patient alliance into a means of enlisting the patient in a active alliance with the physician. This approach requires that the physician understand the origins of the patient's fantasies of certainty as a defense against feelings of helplessness, empathize with the patient's unrealistic wishes, and guide the patient to a realistic acceptance of the physician's continuing support in facing uncertainty. (KIE abstract)
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Malpractice Prevention Through the Sharing of Uncertainty: Informed Consent and the Therapeutic Alliance
Gutheil, Thomas G.; Bursztajn, Harold; Brodsky, Archie (1984-07-05)