Train doctors in dealing with patients

Gröhe: Better training doctors in dealing with patients

07/16/2014

Doctors and nurses should be better prepared to work with patients during training. This has demanded Federal Health Minister Hermann Gröhe. The CDU politician reacts to an AOK study, according to which many Germans have little health knowledge.

Improve patient handling

Both doctors and nurses should be better prepared to work with patients during their training. This has demanded Federal Health Minister Hermann Gröhe. Opposite the „Rheinische Post“ from Wednesday he said: „Dealing with patients, and including understandable language, must be more important in the education of doctors and nurses.“ Minister Gröhe responded to an AOK study, according to which 60 percent of the legally insured one „problematic“ or „inadequate“ Have health literacy.

Many are unable to cope in the healthcare sector

From this unpublished representative study of the scientific institute of the AOK (WidO), which the „Rheinische Post“ on Tuesday, one can conclude: one in four Germans does not understand his doctor. Accordingly, a quarter of patients can not implement on their own responsibility, what the doctor advises them. „The fact that many people have difficulties finding their way into our healthcare system must shake us up“, so great. Especially in personal conversation arises knowledge about health.

Respect for the patient

„It is a matter of respect for patients that they understand their illness and treatment options“, said the Minister of Health. A slightly different direction of the conclusions from the results of the study, the head of the AOK Federal Association, Jürgen Graalmann, a. He told the newspaper: „We have to realize that the image of the sovereign patient has gotten scratches.“ He found the results surprising and demanded that „health education“ should also be anchored more firmly in school lessons.

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