Shared medical decision-making: strategic maneuvering by doctors in the presentation of their treatment preferences to patients

Authors
Publication date 2011
Host editors
  • F.H. van Eemeren
  • B. Garssen
  • D. Godden
  • G. Mitchell
Book title Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation
ISBN
  • 9789036102438
Event 7th Conference on Argumentation of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation: ISSA 2010
Pages (from-to) 1811-1818
Publisher Amsterdam: Rozenberg/Sic Sat
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract
In this paper, I shall first compare the aims and starting-points of an ideal model of (shared) treatment decision making in the medical context with the pragma-dialectical ideal model of critical discussion. Next, I shall discuss one of the problems physicians are faced with in such a decision making context, namely how to inform the patient of their treatment preferences, without unnecessarily restricting the patient's freedom of choice. I shall end with the discussion of a number of examples of how physicians may maneuver strategically to get their treatment proposals accepted by using specific presentation techniques aimed at preserving the impression of neutrality.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
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