‘Problem patients and physicians' failures': what it means for doctors to counsel vaccine hesitant patients in Switzerland
| Autor: | Philip E. Tarr, Benedikt M. Huber, Constanze Pfeiffer, Michael J. Deml, Andrea Buhl, Claudine Burton-Jeangros, Julia Notter, Paulina Kliem |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science) media_common.quotation_subject education Population 03 medical and health sciences Seekers 0302 clinical medicine History and Philosophy of Science Physicians medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine ddc:305.3 Legitimacy Biomedicine media_common education.field_of_study Physician-Patient Relations Vaccines business.industry 030503 health policy & services Vaccination Clinical Practice Underimmunized Family medicine Ideology ddc:301 0305 other medical science Psychology business Switzerland |
| Zdroj: | Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 255 (2020) P. 112946 |
| ISSN: | 0277-9536 |
| Popis: | This article reports on our qualitative inquiry into the meanings biomedically trained doctors in Switzerland attach to treating vaccine hesitant (VH) and underimmunized patients. With support from social science literature on ‘good’ and ‘bad’ patients and doctors, we explore how both doctors and patients cross the boundaries of these conceptual categories in situations involving vaccine hesitancy and underimmunization. The doctors we interviewed (N = 20) and observed (N = 16 observations, subsample of 6 doctors from the interview sample) described how they screened, measured, and diagnosed patients' levels of vaccine hesitancy. Our results emphasize the meanings doctors associated with counseling hesitant patients, especially while managing their own professional responsibilities, legitimacy, and reputations among colleagues and patients. Doctors' discourses constructed the figure of ‘problem patients,’ characterized through their (potential) non-adherence to vaccination recommendations, desire for lengthy consultations and individualized counseling, and dogmatic ideologies running contra to biomedicine. Discussions around the dilemmas faced by doctors in vaccination consultations brings to the fore several key, yet underdiscussed, paradoxes concerning VH, patient-doctor relationships, and the constructs of ‘good’/‘bad’ doctors and patients. These paradoxes revolve around expectations in Western societies for ‘good’ patients to be autonomous health-information seekers and active participants in clinical encounters, which research shows to be the case for many VH and underimmunizing individuals. However, in the eyes of many vaccination advocates and proponents of biomedical approaches, VH patients become ‘bad’ patients thru their risk of non-adherence, which has implications for the population at large. In these consultations, doctors find themselves conflicted around the expectations to promote vaccination while, at the same time, being active listeners and good communicators with those who question their biomedical training and legitimacy. Understanding these paradoxes highlights the need to better support HCPs in addressing VH in clinical practice. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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