ABSTRACT
La consultation medicale est une rencontre entre deux experts: le medecin et le malade. La confidentialite etant parmi les exigences reconnues a une bonne consultation medicale; il est ideal qu'il n'y ait pas de tierce personne lorsque le malade consulte son medecin. Cependant; il est frequent que le medecin fasse recours a une personne interposee pour bien saisir les preoccupations de son patient. La presence d'un traducteur modifie le cours de la consultation et on se demande si dans ces conditions; le malade arrive a s'exprimer et a etre correctement compris par son medecin. Ailleurs dans le monde; le contexte semble etre plus precis avec la formation des personnes capables de dire le discours du malade pour sa meilleure comprehension par son medecin. Dans nos conditions; il y a lieu qu'un medecin qui recourt a un traducteur fasse mieux et reste dans les limites acceptables d'une consultation medicale en se servant des quelques regles commentes dans cet article
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Communications Media , Hospitalists , Office VisitsABSTRACT
Role extension in any occupation can affect both psychosocial and biomechanical stress levels and thus; have some consequences on efficiency in service delivery. The study was aimed to determine the impact of role extension of medical radiographers into sonography. 50 self-administered questionnaires were distributed to radiographers and to sonographers (radiographers with sonography responsibility). The questionnaires included questions seeking information on the demographic profile of the radiographer and sonographer; anatomical regions of biomechanical symptoms/stress and visual analogue scale (VAS); which rated job satisfaction and anxiety levels. 96of the questionnaires were returned and analyzed statistically using SPSS 11.0 software with P 0.05 indicating level of significance. Sonographers had more prevalence of biomechanical stress symptoms than the radiographers. Job satisfaction for sonographers (58.75) was lower than that for radiographers (64.29). Anxiety level was higher among sonographers even though this was not statistically significant. Sonography responsibility on radiographers did not have any significant effect on psychosocial stress. A balance in the extended role could aid efficiency in service delivery while improving the social strength of the individual