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This theoretical approach reveals three levels of meaning of treatability statements: (1) the literal meaning, (2) the physician’s intended meaning, and (3) the patient’s received meaning. The divergence between the physician’s intended meaning and the patient’s received meaning can be understood to arise from the lack of shared ...
- Jason N Batten, Bonnie O Wong, William F Hanks, David C Magnus
- 2019
Jul 1, 2019 · participants also observed that patients often “cling onto” treatability statements in the context of serious illness, and derive unwarranted hope from them. Second, focusing on the
Empirical work has shown that patients and physicians have markedly divergent understandings of treatability statements (e.g., "This is a treatable condition," "We have treatments for your loved one") in the context of serious illness. Patients often understand treatability statements as conveying good news for prognosis and quality of life.
- Jason N Batten, Bonnie O Wong, William F Hanks, David C Magnus
- 2019
Aug 23, 2019 · An article published in the July 2019 issue of the journal Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics discusses how empirical work has shown that patients and physicians have markedly divergent understandings of treatability statements. For example, in the context of a serious illness, a physician m
Jul 1, 2019 · A divergence in meaning raises new and largely unidentified challenges to informed consent and shared decision making in the context of serious illness, which indicates a need for further empirical research in this area. Abstract: Empirical work has shown that patients and physicians have markedly divergent understandings of treatability statements (e.g., “This is a treatable condition ...
Aug 20, 2024 · The intense, daunting nature of these conversations may cause clinicians to revert to more prescriptive communication habits and declarative statements. 1 These words meet emotionally wrought patients and families who are primed to attune to every clinical turn of phrase. Even a single word may frighten or disempower patients—and possibly hamper shared attempts at decision making.
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Feb 14, 2019 · When patients hear their disease is "treatable," they often think that means it's "containable" or even "curable"—but providers often mean something very different, according to Barbara Coombs Lee, a physician assistant and patient advocate. Writing for WBUR, Coombs Lee explains how health care providers can give patients a clearer ...
