The impact of doctor-patient relationships on recovery times

Follow-up care and healing in relationship to patient perceptions of degree/quality of care and physician support

Traditional and non-traditional models of bedside manner and its impact on patient wellness (possible cross-cultural examinations)

Professional development and emerging models of patient-doctor relationships

Socioeconomic, racial, gender, sexuality and other factors that impact access, delivery and level of care provided

Governmental and legal dictates and their impact on the doctor-patient relationship

Components of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) that implicate, intervene and impact the patient-doctor relationship

Insurance companies and their role and impact on managing the doctor-patient relationship