SEMINAR TRAINING FOR CONTRACEPTIVE CARE – WHAT SORT OF DOCTOR? (INTRODUCTION)
If the reactions between the patient and the doctor are to be studied as a way of illuminating the patient’s problem, it is necessary for the doctor to be aware of his or her normal doctoring style. It is then possible to recognize changes from this norm, and to think about what it is in the patient that has provoked that change. Such a way of thinking is very different from the way the doctor has previously been trained where the emphasis was on the collection of accurate information, logical thinking about differential diagnosis and the provision of correct treatment.
Doctors come into seminars hoping to learn how to help people with contraceptive or psychosomatic difficulties. Their thinking is concerned with, ‘Was my action right or wrong?’ or ‘How could I have done better?’ Gradually they learn to think differently, and to wonder, ‘What was it about the patient that made me act in that way?’ Or to put it another way, ‘What sort of doctor was I to that patient?’ Such questions can lead to a re-examination of the patient’s problem, often providing clues to unconscious forces that had not previously been recognized. For instance, a doctor may become much more of a didactic teacher than usual.
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