What are the wishes of the health conscious patient?
Gerd Marstedt states that Clients are collecting all sorts of information regarding the causes of their illnesses and their therapy possibilities! (Marstedt) They accept that some symptoms are an expression of their state, Salutogenesis, and not necessarily a disease, Pathogenesis. Many desire more communication and social support in the medical care which may include sometimes low level psychotherapeutic elements. That means those health conscious patients desire a soft medicine and want to improve their own self-healing powers and they don’t agree to only one expert attitude. They want to be actively included into their decisions finding process. Especially Patients who are better informed about the cause of their illnesses and its possibilities to treat it, they want to talk in the consultation with the physician (see Figure 11). They desire more communication and social support in the medical care. Sometimes they desire more pastoral care, or some kind of talking or psychotherapeutic elements. Furthermore, they all think that the western medicine is too speechless, to expertized, to authority oriented! Hence, they are just very disappointed of the Western medicine. However, the typical physician has no time and no training to deal with those patients!