While patient self-disclosure is expected and necessary in the clinical setting, clinicians
generally minimize their own self-disclosure, a practice largely guided by the boundaries of …

Patients and families facing serious illness often want and need their clinicians to help guide
medical decision making by offering a recommendation. Yet clinicians worry that …

Although healthy physician–patient boundaries are essential to medical practice, published
research on how to teach this important topic to medical students is lacking. Physician …

Role conflict and strain occur when healthcare providers are required to cross boundaries,
either voluntarily or involuntarily, to meet the needs of their dying patients. This research is …

Background Nurturing effective physician-patient relationships is essential to the provision of
patient-centred care. Palliative care physicians may apply boundary-crossings or breaches …

Religion/spirituality (R/S) is an important component of some patients' psychosocial
framework when facing illness. While many patients report an increased desire for R/S …

Nonverbal affective behaviors are important communication tools in any physician-patient
interaction. In the present study, standardized clinical interactions were recorded and …

This article explores the hypothesis that when a child has a life-limiting illness, the
interpersonal boundaries between the patient, the patient's parents, and the health care …

End-of-Life, the topic of the decade of 1990-2000, brought the focus on how we die in
America. Death encompasses cultural, ethnic, spiritual, social and physical elements, which …

We argue in this chapter for a re-valuing of relationships. While it has long been recognised
that a relationship lies at the heart of the health provider-patient interaction, latterly changes …