Any medical practioner who can't figure this out on their own shouldn't
be practising medicine anyway!

Rayna


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>Patients treated with respect more likely to follow medical advice
>Attention doctors: Want patients to follow your advice? Treat them with dignity,
>a Johns Hopkins study has found.
>In a national survey of more than 5,000 Americans, those who said they were
>treated with dignity during their last medical encounter were more likely to
>report higher levels of satisfaction with their care, adhere to therapy and get
>preventive services.
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>Hopkins researchers, using data from the Commonwealth Fund 2001 Health Care
>Quality Survey, interviewed 5,514 Americans who reported having a medical
>encounter within the previous two years and who were white, African American,
>Hispanic or Asian. Most respondents were female (65 percent), had at least some
>college education (62 percent), had incomes of more than 200 percent of the
>poverty level (66 percent), and spoke English as their primary language (93
>percent).
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>Overall, 76 percent of respondents reported being treated with a great deal of
>respect and dignity, and 77 percent reported being involved in decisions to the
>extent that they wished.
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>Being treated with dignity was significantly associated with adherence to
>treatment plans for racial and ethnic minorities, whereas being involved in
>decisions was significantly associated with adherence for whites.
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>These results are published in the July/August issue of the Annals of Family
>Medicine.
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>"Although involving patients in decisions is an important part of respecting
>their autonomy, it is equally important to respect patients more broadly by
>treating them with dignity," says Mary C. Beach, M.D., M.P.H., lead author and
>an assistant professor of medicine.
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