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Breakdown Of Trust Case Study

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Breakdown of trust and respect between the physician and the patient:

Trust and respect are essential elements of an effective physician-patient relationship. Physicians may find in the course of providing services to a patient that these elements break down to the extent that the physician is no longer able to provide quality care to the patient. This may occur when there has been:
- Patient fraud, such as for the purpose of obtaining narcotics or other drugs;
- Serious threat of harm to the physician, staff and/or other patients;
- Other forms of inappropriate behavior towards the physician, staff and/or other patients;
- A conflict of interest that compromises the physician’s duty to put the interests of his/her patients first;
- A communication

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