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COVID-19 and the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Author(s) -

David C. Fipps,

Elisabet Rainey

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

focus the journal of lifelong learning in psychiatry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1541-4108

pISSN - 1541-4094

DOI - 10.1176/appi.focus.20200033

Subject(s) - covid-19 , perspective (graphical) , grief , pandemic , psychology , medicine , medical emergency , disease , psychotherapist , virology , computer science , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak , artificial intelligence

During a pandemic, physicians can become so inundated with combating the disease that they may forget the individual patient's experience. In this perspective, the authors describe a case of COVID-19 from the point of view of the grief stages (or categories) described by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, with an emphasis on utilizing skills to enhance the doctor-patient relationship even in this time of crisis.

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