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Acta Médica Peruana
On-line version ISSN 1728-5917
Abstract
ALBUJAR-BACA, Pedro Félix. When the doctor is the patient. Acta méd. peruana [online]. 2015, vol.32, n.3, pp.164-168. ISSN 1728-5917.
This article discusses some aspects of physicians when they become patients, as resistance to accept the new role, bureaucracy and inefficiencies of the sanitary system, the attending physician and the ill doctor, the doctor-patient relationship after recovery, and the physician's own health care responsibility.
Keywords : physician-patient relations; doctor; physicians; patient care; patients.