My patient’s wife glared at me from across his bed, where she stood flanked by a half-dozen friends. My patient, lying between us, was yellow with jaundice, his face gaunt, bruises on his arms from ...

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

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 ...

The difficult patient often upsets the staff, sends negative reverberations throughout the practice, causes stress and frustration, and can even cause a loss of revenue based on their behaviors and ...

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 ...

Some patients continually cancel their appointments, ignore your medical directions, treat your staff rudely, or send you harassing emails. Do you have to tolerate their behavior? No, these are all ...

A systematic review of 45 studies found that physicians perceive one in six patient visits in non-psychiatric clinics as "difficult," and these encounters are more likely to involve patients with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Healio has compiled April’s most-read news in asthma and allergy. Top stories included advice for dealing with ...

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, ...