![]() A care model incorporating these elements of dialogue and individualized judgement is ideal for older patients, for whom population-level guidelines are often inapplicable, who are often dependent on other persons and who are heterogeneous in their needs. Person-centered clinical judgement is concerned with the individual clinical case and as such is integrative, context-sensitive, interpretive and circumstantial. The doctor-patient relationship is an important thread in a person-centered medicine that visualizes the clinical encounter as a dialogue between 2 persons. In this commentary, we consider what PCM has to offer as a model for the clinical encounter and for clinical judgement. ![]() In a recent discussion paper, Miles and Mezzich described person-centered medicine (PCM) as a model of modern medical practice that has emerged from the intellectual currents of the past century. ![]()
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