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Appendix: Patient Individual Profile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

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Dear Patient:

This book began with a letter to you, and it is fitting that it ends with one as well. It is evident throughout the chapters that there are two realities of contemporary health care: 1) Your health providers want to take care of you and your health needs in the best way possible, and 2) there is less and less time available for them to spend with each patient. To address these conflicting realities, we offer the Patient Individual Profile form as a way for your health care providers – principally, your doctors and nurses – to learn more about you – your background, values, and preferences. Having this information will help them go beyond treating just your body – it will let them look at you as a person.

This form is a way to talk about things that matter to you most. The questions are intended to give you an opportunity to share the sort of information with your health providers that does not commonly arise in the course of treatment but does have a bearing on who you are. The questions are intended to provide a personal portrait that goes beyond you as a patient, but you should use them as you wish. Feel free to leave any questions unanswered or substitute others you believe are important, and take advantage of the note at the end to tell your providers anything else you want them to know.

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Surviving Health Care
A Manual for Patients and Their Families
, pp. 311 - 316
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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