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This programme attempts to show how relations with doctors can be improved by patients adopting new attitudes towards them.
This programme attempts to show how relations with doctors can be improved by patients adopting new attitudes towards them.
| Item code: | P921; 04 |
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| First transmission date: | 30-11-1980 |
| Published: | 1980 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:26 |
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| Producer: | Carol Haslam |
| Contributors: | Mike Hall; Merelina Kendall; Jean Marlow; Jean Marlow; David McKail; Tom Vernon; Tom Vernon |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Communications; Conflict; Health |
| Footage description: | This programme is a dramatization of a possible sequence of events as a woman visits her doctor to complain of headaches. The consultation is shown in full and the narrator explains how timidity on the part of the woman means that she is not explaining herself properly. The doctor prescribes Valium. The woman is then shown asking the advice of the local chemist, as she has doubts about the suitability of the pills she has been prescribed. He advises her to see her doctor again and to pick a time when she can speak to the doctor in a more relaxed manner. The woman is shown overcoming the delaying tactics of the doctor's receptionist and getting a second consultation with the doctor. This time they have a successful discussion about the real cause of the woman's headaches, stress due to problems at home, and she leaves the surgery prepared to discuss her difficulties with her husband, as a first step towards relaxing and alleviating her headaches. |
| Production number: | FOUP029R |
| Videofinder number: | 3014 |
| Available to public: | no |
