Search results for "Patient-physician communication"
New ACP position paper explores ethical guidance for electronic patient-physician communication
The paper offers recommendations for navigating e-communication, privacy and confidentiality, and practice considerations to try to align patient and physician expectations.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2020/07/07/4.htm
7 Jul 2020
Latest updates on ACP's priorities, initiatives
ACP Spotlight offers readers a look at ACP's current top priorities and initiatives, as well as highlights from our e-newsletter, ACP Internist Weekly.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2020/09/latest-updates-on-acps-priorities-initiatives.htm
1 Sep 2020
New ACP ethics case study available
ACP's case study “Stewardship of Health Care Resources: Responding to a Patient's Request for Antibiotics” is now available online through Medscape.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/11/20/6.htm
20 Nov 2012
Patients increasingly checking ‘Dr. Google’
More than a third of patients have gone online to identify a medical condition, raising concerns about “cyberchondria” and requiring physicians to adapt to help patients differentiate the helpful websites from the misleading ones.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/11/dr-google.htm
1 Nov 2013
Inappropriate care requests: the role of health care professionals
Yul Ejnes, MD, MACP, immediate past chair of ACP's Board of Regents, a practicing internist in Cranston, R.I., and a member of ACP Internist's editorial board, continues his column at KevinMD.com, one of the Web's leading destinations for provocative physician commentary.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/11/20/7.htm
20 Nov 2012
Should doctors worry about online ratings?
Consumers have free rein to anonymously post negative comments online about their physicians. Some are fighting back, while others learn how to turn potentially negative posting into a positive promotional tool for their practices.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/09/online.htm
1 Sep 2010
Patients may overestimate benefits of screening programs, preventive medicines
Patients overestimated the risk reduction achieved with screening and preventive medications, and clinicians should keep that tendency in mind when discussing such issues with patients, a study found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/11/20/5.htm
20 Nov 2012
Leadership, character and taking a stance for the right reasons
For members of the College, taking the right stance on behalf of patients comes before any political principles or self-interests.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/10/presidents.htm
1 Oct 2012
Not all doctors fully disclose errors, pharma ties, bad prognoses, survey finds
A significant proportion of physicians do not completely agree that they should disclose serious medical errors or financial relationships with drug and device companies to patients, according to a recent survey. In addition, one-tenth of survey respondents had told patients something that was not true in the previous year.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/02/14/1.htm
14 Feb 2012