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Lecture VIII 
 
 
 
 
THE DOCTOR PERSONALITY 
 
Structure: 
1.
The doctor’s professional status. 
2.
Factors which affect the doctor’s personality. 
3.
Specific aspects of patient-physician communication. 
4.
Strategies for effective communication with patients. 
Key terms:
 
doctor’s personality; patient-physician communication; 
communication barriers; strategies of effective communication.
 
 
1. The doctor’s professional status.
Doctor 
is seen as someone who posses a professional competence 
to soothe the patient’s sufferance, cure the disease and save patient’s 
life. 
According to the psychosocial investigations, the doctor’s main 
qualities (traits) are as follows: 
–
interrelational abilities (honesty, cordially, etc.); 
–
moral abilities; 
–
intellectual abilities (professional knowledge). 
Professional status of a doctor implies: 

Technical competencies verified by exams, ritualized and ex-
pressed by diplomas, titles, etc. 

Minimal competency in maximal field. 

Universalism in offering medical assistance – equality for treat-
ment. 

Functional specificity – using professional authority to build pro-
fessional doctor-patient relationship. 

Affective (emotional) neutrality – a doctor never judges, puni-
shes or has intimate relationships with his patient. 

Altruism. 

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The obligation to get the patient’s consent.