患者・住民への医学情報サービス 京都南病院における患者への医学情報サービス 医学専門書の提供から患者心理のアフターケアを考えて

Abstract

Although our hospital has thus far presented patients and regional inhabitants, with somewhat too specialized medical and health books, the utilization of medical books other than those related to psycho-internal or psychosomatic medicine, as specifically designated by doctors has been confined to the medical staff. This was for fear of patients reading such medical books, possibly hindering doctors' medical treatments or feeling unnecessary anxiety about the disease, from their own mistaken interpretations. However, our judgment that patients' knowledge and the open presentation of medical information thereto for the sake of informed consent aiming at the patients' understanding, judgment and selection are required. As such, library medical materials should be available to initiate a partially open presentation of specialized medical books to patients and regional inhabitants in general this year (1997). Guidance to the utilization of specialized books is charged by the librarian and 3 doctors including a psycho-internal physician, but even with fear of anxiety the part of a patient having learnt his own symptoms and the remainder of his life from reading medical books, such a problem as whether the librarian can hold users' privacy or how the librarian should think of this issue once priority is given to the care of patients, remains to be examined.