Difficult patient interactions can be stressful and cause disruption in the practice. This online training session will focus on how to manage difficult patients, the patient removal process and how ...

GP surgery staff have warned they are bearing the brunt of growing patient frustration at delays in trying to get an appointment with a doctor. Scotland's GPs claim a £290m funding gap means they can ...

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

In nonpsychiatric settings, primary care physicians consider 17% of their patients as “difficult,” particularly those who have anxiety or depression, according to research published Jan. 12 in Annals ...

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 ...

UK pharmacies have reported having to deal with angry and confused patients after the NHS booking system allowed non-eligible patients to book Covid jabs. According to Community Pharmacy England (CPE) ...

Dr. Lamas, a contributing Opinion writer, is a pulmonary and critical care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. My patient’s wife glared at me from across his bed, where she stood ...

GP empathy assessed using the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) Measure was correlated with improved patient enablement, greater satisfaction, and improvement in symptoms in telephone ...