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Dialogues@RU is published
annually
by the
Writing Program at
Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey
Volume 4
Fall 2005
The Physician as Coachin the Management of Chronic Diseases - Page 7
By Pascal Scemama de Gialluly
Works Cited
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Vale, Margarite, Michael Jelinek, James Best, John Santamaria. "Coaching Patients with Coronary Heart Disease to Achieve the Target Cholesterol: A Method to Bridge the Gap between Evidence-based Medicine and the 'Real World' ¾ Randomized Controlled Trial." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 55 (2002): 245-252.
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Commentary
Latoya S. Anderson
The utilization of coaching within the context of the doctor patient-relationship is a fairly new phenomenon. In Pascal Scemama de Gialluly's essay, "Physician as Coach," the act of coaching is introduced as a concept originated by health insurance providers as a means to decrease the mounting financial costs incurred by patients as a result of chronic illnesses. While firmly establishing the position of the coach as separate from the role of the physician, Scemama also clearly fosters a connection between the two roles, constructing a foundation upon which to emphasize his theory that integrating the duties of the coach with the obligations of the physician will give the patient the maximum level of medical support needed to assist him with autonomously managing his illness.