Search results for "Patient Communication"
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
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
November 2019
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’
November 2019
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.
November 2019
Watching as the patient digs herself a hole
Watching as the patient digs herself a hole. I saw a woman making a decision that might lead to her death, and I feel powerless to stop her. ... His research interests include doctor-patient communication, bioethics, and systematic reviews. He is also a
November 2019
Should physicians wear white coats?
not wear white coats. The news was getting around that doctors spread infection from one patient to the next by our garments. ... As a patient, I like it when my doctors where a white coat.
November 2019
Patients who drink too much
The patient is then free to make his decision, as he is with any medical proposal. ... Patients aren't obligated to accept my advice. Indeed, the bedrock concept of informed consent places the authority of the decision where it properly resides, with the
November 2019
Doctors discuss the consequences of misleading medical news
Doctors have to spend a lot of time correcting patients' misimpressions of medical research based on mainstream media reporting, readers tol...
November 2019
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...
November 2019
The discharge paperwork makeover
Recently, I had just discharged a patient and was told by the nurse that the family was confused with the instructions that they had been given. ... I went to talk to the patient and the family, and when I saw the print out that was generated by the
November 2019