THE PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DENTAL PHYSICIAN AND THE PATIENT

Authors

  • Sorin HOSTIUC Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Dept. of Legal Medicine and Bioethics, Bucharest, Romania, emails: soraer@gmail.com, sorin.hostiuc@umfcd.ro https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4130-9402

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbbioethica.2019.01

Keywords:

dental patient relationship, Ozar, professionalism.

Abstract

The physician-patient relationship is the core interpersonal relationship staying at the base of the contemporary medical ethics, most clinical issues causing ethical dilemmas being centered around it. This relationship can be analyzed from four main perspectives: legal, social, psychological and moral. In medical ethics literature, there are numerous models of physician-patient relationship, which are based, on variable degrees, on the legal, psychologic, sociologic and moral principles that will be briefly summarized here, the most well-known being the models developed by Szasz and Hollander, Roter and Hall, Ben-Sira, Thomasma, Mead and Bower, and especially Emanuel, whose models are currently considered the standard models and are being presented as such to medical student and residents in many countries (including Romania). However, the dental profession has some particularities that require, at least in some circumstances, some additional models that will be presented briefly in this unsystematised review. We will begin by performing a brief analysis of the professionalism of the dental-patient relationship, followed by a discussion regarding the most often cited models of relationship, namely those developed by Ozar, Coleman and Burton, Friedman and Bedos.

REZUMAT. Relația profesională dintre medicul dentist și pacient. Relația medic-pacient este una dintre interacțiunile profesionale esențiale ale medicilor, stând la baza eticii medicale contemporane, majoritatea dilemelor de etică clinică fiind centrate de aceasta. Relația medic-pacient poate fi analizată din patru perspective fundamentale: legală, socială, psihologică și morală. În literatura de specialitate sunt descrise numeroase modele de relație medic-pacient care sunt bazate, în grade variabile, pe principii legale, psihologice, sociologice și morale ce vor fi sumarizate aici, cele mai cunoscute fiind cele dezvoltate de Szasz și Hollander, Roter și Hall, Ben-Sira, Thomasma, Mead și Bower și mai ales Emanuel, ale cărui modele sunt considerate de mulți autori drept modelele standard și sunt predate ca atare studenților mediciniști și rezidenților din multe țări (inclusiv România). Medicina dentară are o serie de particularități care fac absolut necesară utilizarea, cel puțin în unele circumstanțe, a unor modele adiționale, care vor fi prezentate succint în acest review nesistematizat al literaturii de specialitate. Vom începe această analiză cu o scurtă discuție despre profesionalism în contextul relației medic dentist-pacient, după care vom analiza cele mai citate modele de relație, respectiv cele dezvoltate de Ozar, Coleman și Burton, Friedman și Bedos.

Cuvinte cheie: relația medic dentist-pacient, Ozar, profesionalism.

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Published

2019-12-30

How to Cite

HOSTIUC, S. (2019). THE PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DENTAL PHYSICIAN AND THE PATIENT. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Bioethica, 64(1-2), 11–18. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbbioethica.2019.01

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