One in six patients are deemed to be dissatisfied and demanding. But to prevent difficult medical problems from being redefined as difficult patients, doctors need help ...

Have you ever felt like a “bad patient?” It might not be all in your head if you think a doctor is annoyed with you. When I began working in hospitals and clinics, I learned of an ominous ...

Rarely, some patients do have personality issues that make dealing with them difficult or impossible. If your staff have strong reservations about or a strong negative reaction to a particular patient ...

Throughout your health career, you’ll inevitably encounter patients who’ll challenge your actions and words, causing you to question whether you made the right career choice. Empathy—truly ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At least once a week, Emily L. Weis, MD, MS, says she has a challenging consult or patient interaction in her ...

Forty years ago, I had my most angry professional moment. It happened at a weekly meeting that included all our faculty, staff, and trainees—about 200 people. A young and arrogant, not very bright, ...

Prevalence of difficult encounters among clinic patients was 0.17; characteristics that increased difficulty included depression, chronic pain. (HealthDay News) — Providers perceive 17 percent of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Receiving a breast cancer diagnosis can be a life-altering experience, and it can also feel like you’re the only one going through ...

His visits to emergency departments always followed the same pattern. He would arrive in the afternoon complaining of chest pain. A bypass scar and a long-standing abnormal ECG pointed toward coronary ...