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 ...

As rewarding as being a healthcare provider is, there are also stressful moments, sometimes brought on by the need to deal ...

'Difficult' patient-clinician encounters have a negative impact on patients' health outcomes in the short-term, according to a new study. Nearly 18 percent of patients are perceived as difficult by ...

Doctor with upset patient Practices need to create protocols for dealing with office triggers, such as patient or provider lateness to an appointment, that may contribute to difficult 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 ...

Diagnostic accuracy declines significantly when physicians are faced with "difficult patients," regardless of amount of time spent or case complexity, new research shows. Two studies conducted by ...

The notorious types of difficult patients are the chronic pain patient, the angry patient, the legal risk patient, the patient for whom nothing works, and most controversially, the "patient who knows ...

My colleague Donna Agnew, MT, MSPAS, PA-C, and I have delivered many presentations to students regarding how to deal with patients who seem impossible to communicate with in clinical settings. After ...

Hugo Campos doesn't view himself as a difficult patient. But he senses his doctors' exasperation with him because of his insistence he be given all the medical information they have about him. "I want ...

Two Complete Metabolic Responses (CMRs) observed in patients with relapsed/refractory metastatic Ewing sarcoma and one ...