"Blueprint for Health" is a program that the Department of Vermont Health Access provides. This department is also the one that is administering Vermont's health care reform plan. The Blueprint is aimed to achieve "well coordinated and seamless health services, with an emphasis on prevention and wellness for all Vermonters, while controlling the cost of care." By this definition, the Blueprint helps to push a well-developed practitioner-patient relationship. The Health Matters Blog from Brattleboro Memorial Hospital discussed how the Blueprint model involves the entire community, and that this starts with the primary care practices that emphasize a holistic approach to the patient. I believe one of the most important pieces of this relationship is mutual respect and trust that consists of the practitioner paying attention to the patient as a person and not solely as a disease. One of the best ways to do this is by getting to know your patients and their families in order to initiate a full support system for the health problems that you help them with. The Blueprint for Health model demonstrates an ease of access between practitioners and other services in terms of referral and constructing a full health team. This model enables providers to build their relationship with patients, and I hope that this continues to push mutual respect, and fully understanding your patients in the future.
Link to the article: http://www.bmhvt.org/healthmatters/blueprint-community
You make a great point about the importance of mutual respect in fostering a positive and strong doctor-patient relationship. I think one of the reasons that mutual respect is so important is because it allows the patient to trust the doctor more. Trust is a crucial aspect of this relationship because patients have to open themselves up to their doctors - telling them about some of the most private details of their lives and health, not to mention doing it in a paper gown. In order to make interactions with doctors the most comfortable for patients, trust is pivotal. I also like how you described a holistic approach to patient care by approaching them as a person who may be suffering from ailments rather than a disease. In primary care, so many issues that doctors come across involve multiple aspects of a patient's life and that is why it is so important to develop a relationship with patients to be able to fully understand all of the components of their life and, thus, their health.
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ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you about the importance of mutual respect in well developed practitioner-patient relationship. I strongly believe that the practitioner-patient relationship is equally important for the practitioner and for the patient too. This relationship can be strengthened or weakened or even be lost. It can be placed on test when the healthcare provider is delivering bad news to the patient or he/she recommends some changes in the lifestyle of the patient. As the health care practitioners, we should work on this relationship and be genuinely interested to deliver the best possible health care to our patients.
Mary