Standardized patient encounters (using actors as simulated patients) are helping doctors learn how to improve their communication skills. Mt. Sinai’s Morchand Center for Clinical Competence has adapted an SP methodology for hospitalists to train more than 1,845 residents in various specialties across New York City.
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EHRs weren’t designed to enhance the doctor-patient relationship, but there are simple ways doctors can refocus visits on the patients.
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Dealing with difficult patients is never an easy task, but here are some tips that professionals can use to prevent a situation from escalating further.
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In order to help patients implement consistently healthy strategies, doctors must increase the number of touchpoints with them outside of office visits.
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A first-year medical student discovers the best way to interview a patient is to abandon preconceived questions and just go with it.
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Digital healthcare won’t replace the doctor-patient relationship because caring hands and listening ears can be medicine in and of themselves.
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In the current atmosphere of blame, distrust, and unreasonable expectations, doctor-patient and student-teacher relationships need to be revisited.
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If communication fosters a strong relationship and yields results that satisfy patients, it shouldn’t matter if the provider is male, female, doctor or nurse.
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