What is a Good Consultation in General Medicine

Abstract

The General practitioner/Family doctor in his or her daily practice often has to make decisions on a multitude of subjects with no more support than his ability to judge and reason. In daily practice we continually have to decide the greatest good for the patient [1]. But, how we can define and identify the concept of the “good” for the patient? What are good and bad health behaviours? Where are the "gold standards" of good clinical practice? [2-4]. Evidence-Based Medicine, clinical trials and quantitative studies, which are indispensable for medical science, however they do not give us much information on what a good consultation is, since specifically that qualification refers to specific contexts, not general [5].