Risk 142

Course overview

*Identify ethical and legal prohibitions against patient deception, misinformation, exaggerating healthcare cures, guaranteeing treatment results, and dishonesty. *Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate communications and medical file entries describing patients' healthcare prognoses and progress. *Explain scientific literature linking patients' attitude and mental states to healthcare outcomes. *Illustrate placebo-enhancing doctor-patient interactions that comply with states' prohibitions against deception and misinformation. *Give examples where ethical patient encouragement authentically fosters positive mental states that promote desired patient outcomes. *Express why patient communications must be consistent with medical file entries regarding prognoses and patient progress. *Explain office procedures and staff training likely to optimize health-promoting ethical patient communication and the documentation thereof.