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As rewarding as being a healthcare provider is, there are also stressful moments, sometimes brought on by the need to deal with difficult patients. In fact, physicians say up to 15 percent of patient ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The GPs in this study considered the explanation of the nature of the symptoms as well as maintaining the doctor-patient relationship as a difficult but important task in helping patients with ...

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