Citations:medicophobic

English citations of medicophobic

Adjective

• 1910, The Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia, volume 3, numbers 1–5, page 45:

  It is the favorite shining mark of such medicophobic publications as Life, and the inspiring goal of all young society women. In this popular form of entertaining the public, we have taken a worthy part. Since the autumn of 1907, nearly 250 cases have been treated.

• 1953, George E. Gardner, “Problems of supervision and training in clinical psychology: Round Table, 1952: The supervision of psychotherapy”, in American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, volume 23, number 2, →DOI, page 300:

  As I intimated last year, both the psychiatrist and the social worker seem to have much more of the needful primary orientation in this regard than does the clinical psychologist. On the other hand, there is the “medicophilic” and “medicophobic” ambivalence that the medically trained supervisor is met with equally in both disciplines and that of course is nonexistent in the case of the psychiatrist-student.

• 1961 December, Montague Ullman, “Reactive States Following Strokes”, in The Journal of the Arkansas Medical Society, volume 58, number 7, →PMID, page 270:

  The patients, now no longer members of a captive audience, once again become either medico-philic or medico-phobic, depending on whether they are trying to push the whole experience behind them or seek to exploit the situation in the service of dependency needs.

• 1975 May, Michael J. Asken, “Medical Psychology: Psychology's Neglected Child”, in Professional Psychology, volume 6, number 2, →DOI, page 157:

  A possible explanation for the lack of involvement may be the typical training and employment pattern of the psychologist that isolates him from medical psychological concerns. This is due largely to the medico[-]phobic nature of his training.

  • 1983, C. Eugene Walker, editor, The Handbook of Clinical Psychology: Theory, Research, and Practice, volume 2, Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin, →ISBN, page 883:

    Yet, relatively few professionals have received more than brief formal training outside their own discipline. For example, Asken (1975), described the training of most psychologists as “medicophobic” in nature.

• 1996 June 18, Mary Morken, “How much medical knowledge? How much editing?”, in sci.med.transcription‎^[1] (Usenet):

  I must confess I don't have the avid curiousity about things medical some MTs have. I was never premed. I was medicophobic and hospitophobic. I only want to know what I need to know to be sure I'm using the right word.

Noun

• 2005 July 20, Jane Bates, “Home from home: Children’s wards today are cheerful and welcoming, says Jane Bates. So why don’t we do the same for adults?”, in Nursing Standard, volume 19, number 45, →DOI, page 30:

  I have a friend who is a medicophobic. He is nearly 60 but has hardly been near a doctor since childhood, which he spent in and out of hospital. When his wife was an inpatient he had to force himself through the hospital doors to go and see her, and then he sat by her bed like a cat on hot bricks.