Communicative competence of a cardiologist: ethical and psychological analysis

Abstract

The article problematizes the issue behind the standard categories of psychosocial factors, informing a patient about disease, prognosis, treatment methods, etc. The issue of a doctor’s role in interaction with a patient. Although psychological research methods are actively used in cardiology practice, and their results are quite transparent and demonstrate the specifics of patients experiencing the disease, affective states, soping skills, there are still questions about a physician not as a biomedical expert, but as a helping specialist. And although deontological imperatives require quite clear personal qualities from a doctor, the very realization of these qualities should be based on psychological approaches and culturalpsychological categories. As such, the way a doctor interacts with a patient can be described in terms of virtue ethics, which is an integral category that describes personal characteristics. Such characteristics, being implemented directly in clinical communication, could become a universal “recipe” for meaningful cooperation.

Keywords

• risk factors
• noncommunicable diseases
• ethics
• deontology
• doctorpatient relationship
• virtue ethics
• person-centered approach
• value-based healthcare