Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Relationship between health professionals and patients

Relationship between health professionals and patients

Enric Macarulla


Bernabé Robles


 Mariona Simó


 Carme Casas


 Eduard Prats


Relations

Professionals and patients

Since the dawn of humanity, the medical profession has been hand in hand with patient problems. Following a pattern of equality, the patient has understood himself as sick and has placed himself in the hands of the doctor with the desire to be cured. It is a relationship based on trust, in which the patient presents himself not only as a set of symptoms, but as a worried person seeking help. How has this relationship changed over time? How do we understand it today?