Genesis Fertility Clinic Blog
July 3, 2010Health and relationships
With the HST, school-board funding cuts, and numerous other political bad news stories many of us are disillusioned with government these days. There is a small good news story, however. The provincial government is introducing a new initiative that focuses on the relationship between health care providers (e.g. family doctors) and patients. The concept is that if patients have meaningful, trusting relationships with their health care provider they will have better health outcomes. They assert that care happens within relationships built over time and providing care, as opposed to delivering depersonalized “units” of health service, makes people get better faster, and feel better about their care, while bringing deeper meaning to the work of providers.
You can read the Vancouver Sun report here.
The government is trying to help people who want a family doctor find one, help family doctors communicate with other physicians more efficiently and improve patient’s relationship with their physician.
There is no doubt in my mind that if a patient interacts with their physician over time in a positive way, trust is built, both parties understand each others needs better and testing/technology/treatments are better personalized.
For more information the BC Medical Association’s report on this initiative can be read here
Some good news out of the legislature! Now, if they could legislate some sunny days….
Dr. Beth Taylor, MD, FRCSC
Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility
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