La relation médecin-malade dans les douleurs pelvipérinéales chroniques

As pain is an emotional experience, the type of doctor-patient relationship determines the quality of subsequent management. A number of basic principles should be applied: believe the patient, avoid making the patient feel responsible for failure, avoid overestimating the secondary benefits, avoid making the patient passive and dependent, learn to reinterpret the patient's symptoms, ask “how” does the pain persist rather than “why”, clearly define the patient's demand and adapt management to realistic and accessible objectives.