ALTHOUGH managing difficult or frustrating patients requires experience, clinicians can enhance their professional lives and job satisfaction while also improving patient outcomes by identifying ...

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

Doctors and other medical professionals face a myriad of difficult conversations and scenarios on a daily basis. When we think about emotional conversations, the first thought that comes to mind is ...

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 ...

Caring for complex patients — those experiencing a laundry list of conditions simultaneously — can be challenging for any physician. From incorporating multiple specialists to working with social ...

A systematic review of 45 studies found that physicians perceive one in six patient visits in non-psychiatric clinics as "difficult," and these encounters are more likely to involve patients with ...

Plastic surgeons sometimes face challenging relationships with patients, especially those with underlying psychiatric issues. An ethical framework for managing untenable surgeon-patient relationships ...

Nearly one-fifth of adult patient encounters in non-psychiatric settings were considered difficult by physicians, a meta-analysis found. The prevalence of difficult encounters was 17% across 10 ...