| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
|
|---|
| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study has explored two aspects of interactions between patients with medically unexplained symptoms and their doctors. First, it described how patients justify their visits. Though they often complain about their previous doctors to justify their current visits, this action is risky because it might elicit a negative assessment about the patients. They manage the dilemma by cautiously choosing when to make complaints, how explicitly to do so, and whether to design their utterances as complaints or not. Second, it described how doctors manage their patients' resistance to recommendations of no further treatment at the hospital. Doctors systematically respond to patients' resistance in order to reach an agreement during decision-making. They take measures to reconcile their dual roles as patient advocate and resource steward.
|
