Gynecologist-Patient Relationship: A Sociological Investigation of Hospitals in Twin Cities of Pakistan
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Hospitals, Patients, Purposive Sampling, GynecologistsAbstract
The research was conducted on “Gynecologist-patient relationship: A case study of hospitals in twin cities”. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between doctor and patient specifically gynecologist attitude towards their respective patients. The main aim of this study was to explore the gynecologist and the patient relationship in hospitals. The researcher used qualitative study to identify the attitude of gynecologists. For the purpose of data collection one to one in-depth interview were conducted from pregnant patients (females). The researcher used snowball and purposive sampling technique to collect data. The current research shows that who are professional gynecologist prefer not to treat their own family member because they are emotionally attach with them. Most of the patients were comfortable with female gynecologist rather than male gynecologist. In the last two decades, with special reference to Pakistan, there are significant changes in the structure of society which have influenced and modified the behavior of gynecologists and patient as well as their role relationship. Five decades ago, the gynecologists were few and largely came from upper strata and the patients also were very much traditional and therefore unable to interact with the gynecologists. But for the last two decades, more and more gynecologists are coming from middle class families and the patients are going to be more and more familiarized with the techniques
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