Patient Communications: An Exciting Healthcare Challenge June 2014
This post first appeared online as a response to Becker’s ASC Review’s “Ask a Gastroenterologist” Series on June 20, 2014. Almost a decade ago, [...]
This post first appeared online as a response to Becker’s ASC Review’s “Ask a Gastroenterologist” Series on June 20, 2014. Almost a decade ago, [...]
Health care providers spend the majority of their time doing on one communication with their patients. It’s well recognized that good communication skills are [...]
A recent feature online at WNPR News, "Medical Students in New Haven Learn How to Deliver Bad News," I have taught patient centered interviewing [...]
Wanted to share this amazing BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) interview with renowned cardiologist and peace activist Bernard Lown, MD . In 14 [...]
For medical clinicians, our growing challenge is to find ways to reconcile the required use of the electronic medical record (EMR) with efforts to [...]
In my previous communication I discussed the derivation of patient centered care and why it is so important to empower the patient when making [...]
We hear so much these days about “Patient Centered Care” but what does it really mean? Throughout written and even prehistory there have been [...]
I recently came across a Huffington blog post by Jeffrey Bland PhD, “The Elephant in the Exam Room: How Insurance Companies Affect the Doctor-Patient [...]
For physicians, good communication involves more than improving the physician-patient relationship . More and more physicians are seeing job dissatisfaction when working in the [...]
Senior couple with the doctor, going over medical history. The recent New York Times article, “For New Doctors, 8 Minutes per Patient,” [...]