Search results for "Patient Communication"
ACP Internist
Every doctor has had a patient facing him insisting that a CAT scan be done. ... Forge ahead with the stomach scope exam while the patient is still sedated.
February 2020
Is it bad patient behavior or poor doctor-patient communication?
Here's an anecdotal experience describe by a physician comment on my last blog post: "I agree that doctor-patient communication is critically important. ... REFERENCES:. Carroll, J., et al. "Clinician-Patient Communication about Physical Activity in an
February 2020
Information plus documentation a must for informed consent
In 1990, Dr. Gottesman was sued for late diagnosis of a patient's prostate cancer. ... If the patient has any particular impediments to understanding, it's even more crucial to have a second listener, he added.
January 2012
QD: News Every Day--Interns skipping the niceties of patient communication
QD: News Every Day--Interns skipping the niceties of patient communication. First-year interns rarely do the little courtesies that could establish a rapport with patients, such as introducing themselves, and ... Simple steps to improve interns’
February 2020
No predictions
A patient asks me if she should take an aspirin to prevent heart disease. ... His research interests include doctor-patient communication, bioethics, and systematic reviews. He is also a poet, journalist and translator in Yiddish and English.
February 2020
Stigma
I tell myself: Speak in tones that aren't patronizing and sorrowful or as if you're irrevocably broken. Then coach yourself away from the fe...
February 2020
Listen more
3. When you examine a patient, you examine a person. This was my favorite reason. ... The first, and more important, is learning the patient's story by listening.
February 2020
Health numeracy
There is a growing awareness of the importance of health literacy, the extent to which patients and their families are able to understand wo...
February 2020
Listen
And, yes, stopping the medication in these circumstances fixed the problems the patient was having. ... I recently had a diabetic patient come to me embarrassed with his poor control.
February 2020
Painfully aware
She didn't look well. No one "looks well" sitting in an crowded ER, but she really didn't look good. At first glance from across the room I ...
February 2020