Mechanisms and Practical Innovations in Physician-Patient Communication — Based on the Research of Richard Street

Abstract

In the field of health communication, physician-patient communication serves as the core of interpersonal health communication and exerts a crucial impact on patients' health outcomes, medical care satisfaction, and the effectiveness of healthcare systems. Centered on the academic research of Professor Richard L. Street, an American scholar, this paper systematically combs through his theoretical and practical achievements related to physician-patient communication, focuses on analyzing the core mechanism of the Communication-Health Outcomes Pathway Model, explores his criticism and innovation of the "patient-centered" communication paradigm as well as his extended research in the fields of caregiver roles and end-of-life care, summarizes the application value of his diverse research methods, and provides theoretical references and practical enlightenment for the deepening of physician-patient communication research and the optimization of clinical practice.