Cynicism and other attitudes towards patients in an emergency department in a middle eastern tertiary care center

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• 作者：Nicholas J. Batley ; Zeina Nasreddine ; Ali Chami ; Dina Zebian…
• 关键词：Cynicism ; Empathy ; Medical students ; Interns ; Residents ; Attending physicians ; Patients
• 刊名：BMC Medical Education
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 全文大小：454 KB
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• 作者单位：Nicholas J. Batley (1)
  Zeina Nasreddine (1)
  Ali Chami (1)
  Dina Zebian (1)
  Rana Bachir (1)
  Hussein A. Abbas (1) (2)
  
  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
  2. Current Address: Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
  
• 刊物主题：Medical Education; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1472-6920

文摘

Background A caring, compassionate practitioner of the medical arts is the idealized version of what makes a good doctor. If asked to think of a painting of a doctor we most likely conjure an image of a physician sitting at a patient’s bedside checking the pulse with a concerned look on his face. The reality is however that cynicism, among other negative attitudes, is becoming more prominent among physicians and medical staff. The causes and extent of cynicism likely vary among medical departments and different cultures. In this study, we aimed to assess attitudes of medical students and physicians in an Emergency Department (ED) in Lebanon that accommodates both local patients and is also known to attract patients from around the Middle East.