Resumen de Stories of the illness in a changing world of medicine
Rolim Neto Modesto Leite, Reis Alberto Olavo Advincula
(OBJECTIVES) This study aims at evaluating the impact caused by the doctor's attitude before those patients who would be submitted to a surgical process and their outcome stories expressing their misfortunes and their evaluating the doctor's behavior facing this new situation. (METHODS) The data collection was done through interviews and a questionnaire applied by the psychological team while the patients had their hearts examined. For the process of codification and labeling the CAQDAS (Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software) was used. (RESULTS) Anxiety was almost a unanimous feeling in every story in which the patients had the opportunity to express their feelings arisen by the illness, as well as before a potential surgery. Also, a need of a more human contact with the doctor was told. (CONCLUSION) The patients who had any kind of faith surprisingly had a calmer recovery process. The absence of a more human relation with the doctor gave place to a deeper attachment to a divine figure in an attempt to overcome the fear of death.
