Jeffrey L. Jackson, M.D., M.P.H., from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and colleagues estimated the prevalence of difficult patient encounters among adults seen in nonpsychiatric ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A study conducted by researchers at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute and the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science suggests certain factors, including patients’ fear of ...

Receiving a breast cancer diagnosis can be a life-altering experience, and it can also feel like you’re the only one going through this. But about 316,950 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be ...

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 ...

Have you ever felt like a “bad patient?” It might not be all in your head if you think a doctor is annoyed with you. When I began working in hospitals and clinics, I learned of an ominous ...