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The term ‘patient-centred care’ (P-CC) is relatively recent, but concepts at its core have been part of health care for over a century. Early hints of P-CC were evident in the words of Dr William Mayo, founder of the renowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1910: ‘the best interest of the patient is the only interest to be considered’ (Berry, 2004). Nevertheless, this well-intended goal still placed the doctor as the central voice in the doctor-patient relationship, in a somewhat paternalistic ‘doctor-knows-best’ approach. That is, doctors were the experts, and — while Mayo insisted that the patient’s interest should prevail — it was the doctor’s judgement about what would be in the best interest of the patient.
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Montgomery, K. (2013). Developments in Conceptions of Patient-Centred Care: Implementation Challenges in the Context of High-Risk Therapy. In: Keating, M.A., McDermott, A.M., Montgomery, K. (eds) Patient-Centred Health Care. Organizational Behaviour in Health Care. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137308931_2
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