· The doctor is supposed to listen carefully to the patient and make the patient feel understood.
· He is supposed to tell the patient that his illness has a name, ‘functional disorder’, and then send the patient to a psychiatrist.
· He should be stoic to side effects.
· If the patient gets worse the doctor should see it as emotional communication more than a new illness.
· The doctor should try to be the only doctor for the patient. No second opinion.
· The doctor should cooperate with the family against the patient and recommendpsychiatric treatment.
· People with physical illnesses will not easily accept this and ends up as ‘difficult’ patients.
· I order to learn how to handle those ‘difficult’ patients Per Fink runs courses with actors as patients, so the young doctors can learn how to handle them.
· The model says too:“Essential elements in the model are to make the patient feel understood, then to broaden the agenda, and finally to negotiate a new understanding of the symptoms including psychosocial factors.”
· The psychiatrist tries to make the patient understand that what he feels is not real, it is only in his mind, and therefore it is a good idea with for example psychoactive drugs.
· He is supposed to tell the patient that his illness has a name, ‘functional disorder’, and then send the patient to a psychiatrist.
· He should be stoic to side effects.
· If the patient gets worse the doctor should see it as emotional communication more than a new illness.
· The doctor should try to be the only doctor for the patient. No second opinion.
· The doctor should cooperate with the family against the patient and recommendpsychiatric treatment.
· People with physical illnesses will not easily accept this and ends up as ‘difficult’ patients.
· I order to learn how to handle those ‘difficult’ patients Per Fink runs courses with actors as patients, so the young doctors can learn how to handle them.
· The model says too:“Essential elements in the model are to make the patient feel understood, then to broaden the agenda, and finally to negotiate a new understanding of the symptoms including psychosocial factors.”
· The psychiatrist tries to make the patient understand that what he feels is not real, it is only in his mind, and therefore it is a good idea with for example psychoactive drugs.