Addressing Patient Emotions: Communication Style May Impact Visit Length
Visits were shorter when the clinician’s responses explicitly focused on the patient’s affect.
Visits were shorter when the clinician’s responses explicitly focused on the patient’s affect.
The language in a patient’s medical record can convey information not only about the patient’s condition but about the attitude of the clinician writing the report.
In the event of a likely scarcity of COVID-19 vaccines, a framework must be developed to inform who should get priority.
COVID-19 has brought unprecedented stress to society at large and perhaps most of all to frontline healthcare teams in a variety of settings.
The use of telemedicine has been surging since the onset of COVID-19, with millions of Americans now using this medium for connecting with their clinicians.
To shed light on how clinical practice is dealing in this time of COVID-19, we spoke with Jesse Clark, DO, Associate Program Director of Education at the Community East Family Medicine Residency and Clinical Chairperson of Family Medicine at Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Successful smoking cessation involves a 2-pronged approach, since there are 2 components to smoking – physiological and behavioral, according to Nervana Elkhadragy, PharmD, MS, TTS, of Purdue University, College of Pharmacy, Indianapolis.
To shed further light on the role of physician attire in the medical setting, MPR interviewed Nathan Houchens, MD, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.