DOCTOR PATIENT COMUNICATION AND TRANSCULTURAL ASPECTS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE

Abstract

The scientific direction of the medicine has been determining in the progress that has reached, but the consideration of the person, the unification of the subject in the object, is fundamental in the clinic, the medical act. We needed a medical anthropology in which the main thing is the relation between both, disease and patient, that they can be distinguished, be compared and to be possible, that each one of the two related functions is unified in a midpoint.

The understanding between patient and doctor can be seen disturbed by misun- derstanding of the language and the cultural baggage, as well as we demanded the patient who notifies with clarity on his disease, the doctor that has the great- er responsibility in the relation with the patient must worry, as well, to notify clearly to the patient of his to occur, its diagnosis and its prognosis. Thus it honors Victor von Weizsacker that expresses clearly the direction that means the Medical Anthropology, “the man is an object that contains a subject, and this it is not in favor of outside the dominions of science, but that belongs to the same one”.