Open AccessCOVID-19 and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Author(s) -
David C. Fipps,
Elisabet Rainey
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
focus/focus (american psychiatric publishing. online)
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.