医療従事者と患者の信頼関係構築に向けた取り組みとしての「目的の共有」

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In this paper, I attempt to address what we should do as parties in a healthcare professional-patient relationship in order to secure trusting relationship. The word "trust" is frequently used to express an ideal healthcare professional-patient relationship, e.g. "we can't provide good treatment without securing a trusting relationship with a patient" or "we have to do this and that in order to secure a trusting relationship". However, what can be done to secure a trusting relationship with someone? Further, what does a "trusting relationship" mean? Since there is much ambiguity regarding what a trusting relationship means, we will encounter problems even if we accept "trusting relationship" as an ideal healthcare professional-patient relationship. Thus, in the first section, I will try to identify what the "trust-relationship" means when it is used to refer to an ideal relationship. In the second section, I will clarify what we can do to secure an ideal trusting relationship. Finally, I will explore what we should do to secure an ideal healthcare professional-patient relationship.