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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

"Patients do not want to be shielded from difficult treatment decisions," says Associate Professor Jannicke Rabben at ...

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 ...

Here are three difficult-airway protocols for healthcare facilities to identify difficult-to-intubate patients across different departments and teams, developed by anesthesiologists at Sunrise, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUSTIN (KXAN) — When you think of artificial intelligence, you probably think of Siri and self-driving cars. But one Texas ...

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 ...

Healthcare providers could potentially boost patient satisfaction by providing upfront cost costs, yet 43 percent of patients find it somewhat or very difficult to get this information, according to a ...