The importance of a patient-doctor relationship

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A patient-doctor relationship can be influenced by many factors. A few of the factors are how busy the physician's office is, how caring and sympathetic the doctor may be and how well the doctor and patient can communicate with each other. To me, these seem like some of the most influential factors that determine how positive or how negative the patient-doctor relationship can be. Nowadays doctors' offices are so understaffed and way over booked that even the best doctor can seem to "neglect" his patients to a certain extent by not spending the time he or she needs to with the patient to be able to establish a firm patient-doctor relationship. The patient might end up feeling blown off or ignored by the doctor due to the fact that it is lunch time and he may still have 20 or so more patients to attend to before closing that day. It is really no fault of the doctor but offices of physician's should be one of the most well staffed businesses out there. Understaffing could also have serious consequences due to the doctor might be in such a rush that he might misdiagnose the disease of the patient which could have a disastrous turnout. How caring or sympathetic a doctor is can also play a major role in the forming of the doctor-patient relationship. Some doctors are very caring and sympathetic and actually care about what is happening with the patient and really tries to understand what the problem and does everything they can in their power to fix the issue. Then there are some that just make you feel like a burden and don't really care about what is wrong with you, and will give you anything just about to get you out of their hair. I have experienced this type of doctor many a time with my mother. She was diagnosed with lupus 17 yrs ago. With lupus it attacks your body and weakens your immune system. So, my mother can't fight off any type of infection so she gets
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