Abstract

The Doctor Patient Relationship: A Calculus of Two Languages? A Glimpse at VKH Disease Through the Doctor Patient Relationship

Highlights

  • Feelings in MedicineHippocrates, (460-370 BC) was the first physician to place the origins of thoughts, ideas, and feelings in the brain and not the heart

  • Galen, [126-216] despite his loyalty to humoralism advocated by Hippocrates, was known for his differential diagnosis and emphasized the difference between organic versus emotional diagnosis

  • Maimonides (1135-1204) believed that passions produce great changes in the body and that the perturbations of the psyche need to be in balance to help serve as a check on disease

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Summary

Introduction

Hippocrates, (460-370 BC) was the first physician to place the origins of thoughts, ideas, and feelings in the brain and not the heart. In considering the doctor patient relationship it is the changes over time or how the patient’s language varies from that of the physician that can be seen either in terms of constructive additions or by divisive breaks. If the doctor can put the patient into some level of ease to weather the initial clouds of doubt hanging over the diagnosis and treatment, this will initiate a language of compatibility This can dispel much of the anxiety sometimes raised by family, friends and other confounders such as generalities about similar diseases from the media or the Internet. The differences in language between the doctor and the patient as well as the many unknown curves in the road to disease management create a significant challenge to the science as well as the art of medicine

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