The Physical Exam and Bedside Manners

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Dr. Calvin Chou, Co-Director of UCSF Foundations of Patient Care explores the dynamic of the physical exam and the importance of bedside manner for doctors and patients. This presentation is part of the course, Basic Principles Underlying Modern Medicine, which mirrors the first block of coursework included in the Essential Core of the UCSF Medical School curriculum. Series: "UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public" [6/2007] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 12247]

Channel: Education
Uploaded: January 25, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Author: uctelevision

Length: 00:58:09
Rating: 4.56
Views: 13851

Tags: doctors patient care health

Video Comments:
00187069 (November 19, 2008 at 4:01 pm)
Are any of you doctors? A hospital isn't a restaurant, doctors aren't your wait-staff... You go to the hospital to get treatment for your signs/symptoms... They are just doing their job. Ironically, it's the patients that lack the sympathy for these doctors who've devoted their own lives for the sake of helping others. Our society has become complacent to the advances and rigor of health-care.
WonkyDoodle (June 8, 2008 at 8:40 pm)
What this guy is saying is all nice, but none of this stuff actually gets put into practice! Consultations with docs are the most blunt, short and dull conversations you ever have!
AnatomaniaK (May 15, 2008 at 8:04 pm)
we have come to learn many successful doctors are too arrogant to have a good beside manner. fact.
Energyium (May 28, 2008 at 5:46 am)
i agree
AnatomaniaK (June 2, 2008 at 6:36 pm)
yes, probably including the guy speaking. sympathy and medicine are almost irreconcilable disciplines.
WonkyDoodle (June 8, 2008 at 8:32 pm)
I guess it may have something to do with doctors trying to get away from that archaic image of doctors just simply being a clinician with a good bedside manner, as oppose to clinicians nowadays who are much more scientifically and evidence-based focused. I guess, put simply, doctors focus too much on treating the symptoms and neglect treating the patient.
fatgoneskinny (August 23, 2008 at 2:32 pm)
so true