Barriers, challenges and way forward for implementation of person centered care model of patient and physician consultation: a survey of patients’ perspective from Eastern Mediterranean countries

(1) Department of Family Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan (2) Director General, Executive Board, Health Ministers’ Council for Cooperation Council States (3) Professor of Public Health, Director, WHO Collaborating Centre, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine Imperial College London, UK (4) University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia (5) Department of Family & Community Medicine, Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain (6) Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs, Oman Medical College, Sultanate of Oman (7) Family Physician, Bahrain (8) Department of Family Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (9) Department of Family Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt (10) Senior Specialist Family Physician, Baghdad, Iraq (11) Family Physician, Amman, Jordan (12) Head of the Primary Health Care Faculty at the Kuwait Institution for Medical Specialization. (13) Assistant Program Director in Family Medicine Residency Program-Qatar.