Patient initiatives and physician-challenging behaviors: The views of Israeli health professionals

Physicians' and Nurses' Perceptions of Patient Involvement in Myocardial Infarction Care

“…An Israeli study reported that physicians, nurses and allied health professionals were in general agreement about the acceptability of autonomous patient behaviour. However, all of those groups viewed such patient behaviours as a possible threat to the treatment process [19]. Similarly, 30% of the respondents in our study believed that an involved patient could make improper medical decisions.…”

Our first “IVF baby”: Israel and Canada’s press coverage of procreative technology

“…In the early 1980s, doctors in Israel were paid relatively little but had a high prestige and authority. & Probably owing to this particular standing, consumer attitudes to health services and to their providers were practically non-existent in the early 1980s and a wide status gap separated between the physicians and their patients (Shye et al, 1990). The professional prestige, which was particularly high in the field of gynecology, rendered the doctors' support of IVF highly influential within both media and public circles.…”

Identifying patient and physician characteristics that affect compliance with antihypertensive medications

“…More recent work has begun to focus on health providers' characteristics in contributing to poor compliance by the patients (11,12). A number of studies have identified health providers' age and gender as two possible factors influencing patients' poor compliance with medication (13,14). However, while these previous studies tend to focus on physicians' sociodemographic characteristics, little attention has been given to the role of physicians' medical speciality or type of medical practice in influencing medication compliance by the patients.…”