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 ...

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 ...

When Elaine Benes on Seinfeld discovers she was labeled as a “difficult patient” in her medical chart, hilarity ensues when she tries to correct the record—and makes matters worse. But in real life, ...

The “difficult” patient is a well-known and potentially negative character in various care contexts. The dental staff’s meaning of the phenomenon of “difficult” dental patients points to specific ...

Physicians viewed 17% of patient encounters as difficult, according to a meta-analysis. Patient characteristics associated with perceived difficulty included personality disorders, depression, anxiety ...

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 . 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, ...

CHAPEL HILL – Michelle Mayer had to become a "difficult patient" before she could get her physicians to accurately diagnose the disease that was destroying her health. And once the diagnosis was made, ...

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 ...