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Several relationship styles emerge from the medical care context in hospital-based settings, with special regard to the care partnership between physicians and nurses. Nurses and doctors as health providers communicate among themselves by engaging in a process of self-disclosure mediated by the information related to their patients' conditions. Both address patients' needs, feelings, and illness-related concerns such as fears, preventions, requests, and coping skills. Also, they discuss their own doubts as well as outcomes and other resources needed to be assessed during the intervention process. Significant evidence has been found from health providers' perspective, demonstrating that open communication, as well as timing and active coping strategies, are crucial to the problem-solving process in hospital-based settings. There is the physicians-nurse relationship which is the core concept for a good medical care service. Professional health practice could be debilitated if it is guided by fears, hostility, high-distance communication, lies, non authentic and non empathetic interpersonal relationships, mistrust, and other stress factors that could impact the quality of the service. In conclusion, analyzing the quality of these relationships will facilitate a better understanding for good medical practices by evaluating results and building a care partnership characterized by effective communication competences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]