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Chronic Illnesses, Vulnerability, and Uncertainty: How Do Recent Challenges Impact on Patient-Centered Medicine?

Chronic Illnesses, Vulnerability, and Uncertainty: How Do Recent Challenges Impact on Patient-Centered Medicine?

Eugenia Cao di San Marco, Elena Vegni, Lidia Borghi
Copyright: © 2019 |Volume: 9 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 14
EISBN13: 9781522567400|ISSN: 2641-6255|EISSN: 2641-6263|DOI: 10.4018/IJPCH.2019010104
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di San Marco, Eugenia Cao, et al. "Chronic Illnesses, Vulnerability, and Uncertainty: How Do Recent Challenges Impact on Patient-Centered Medicine?." IJPCH vol.9, no.1 2019: pp.50-63. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJPCH.2019010104

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di San Marco, E. C., Vegni, E., & Borghi, L. (2019). Chronic Illnesses, Vulnerability, and Uncertainty: How Do Recent Challenges Impact on Patient-Centered Medicine?. International Journal of Patient-Centered Healthcare (IJPCH), 9(1), 50-63. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJPCH.2019010104

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di San Marco, Eugenia Cao, Elena Vegni, and Lidia Borghi. "Chronic Illnesses, Vulnerability, and Uncertainty: How Do Recent Challenges Impact on Patient-Centered Medicine?," International Journal of Patient-Centered Healthcare (IJPCH) 9, no.1: 50-63. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJPCH.2019010104

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Abstract

The goal of this chapter is to describe some of the recent challenges that modern medicine is facing using patient-centered medicine as a theoretical frame of reference. First, the work will describe the origin, the development, and the main implications of patient-centered medicine (PCM). Then, it will address the critical increase of chronic illnesses and how PCM could be the best-suited theoretical framework for enhancing patient engagement and coping with chronicity. Additionally, it will address the difficulties raised by increased uncertainty in medical practice, especially from the physicians' point of view. Finally, a relationship-centered care (RCC) will be proposed as a more effective theoretical perspective than PCM to deal with uncertainty and its impact on the patients' and physicians' inner life.