Patient Advocacy

Question 1

Advocacy

Answer 1

include collaborations with people and organizations that combat interpersonal, structural, and systematic inequities and abuses in our society; One that pleads the cause of another

Question 2

different roles of physician advocacy

Answer 2

• standing up for patient’s rights
• Community Education
• Practice Management
• Policy Advocate
• Hospital Physician
• Medical Society

Question 3

Barriers to Patient Advocacy for Physicians

Answer 3

i. Physicians may endorse advocacy in polls without holding them it deeply.
ii. admissions process for medical schools favors academic success with too few service-oriented students.
iii. Medical training, which is long, intense, and isolating, largely removes physicians from the community while they attain clinical competence; perhaps these severed ties are too difficult to rebuild.
iv. Maybe the contrast between the competence and control physicians feel in a clinical setting and the uncertainty and ambiguity they experience in an advocacy role is too stark for most to overcome.
v. Physicians have busy, demanding clinical lives—perhaps their time is too scarce.
vi. Doctors are trained to keep personal opinion and preferences out of the clinical encounter; they address religion and politics at the bedside with caution, if at all.
vii. Advocate’s agenda may at times conflict with the priorities of institutions to which he or she must be accountable; fear of political fallout may keep physician from advocating

Question 4

Rewards in engaging in Advocacy

Answer 4

Doctors are often very successful in advocacy

Question 5

health policy

Answer 5

health policy: decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific health care goals within a society (government)