Why patients hate doctors
The Bioethics Discussion blog revisits a 2-year old post on “I hate Doctors”, which has a heated yet eye-opening discussion on patients’ feelings about their health care providers.
I certainly try and be empathic, and listen to my patients. I have to agree with some of the physician posts in the discussion — the biggest problem tends to be patient expectations. We don’t have miracle cures for everything. We usually can’t see you within 15 minutes of your phone call. A lot of the time we don’t have a 100% certainty with our diagnosis. And if we’ve recommended two or three treatment options and you’ve refused to even try any of them… well I’m not sure what else to say or do to help you, especially within the context of time limitations.
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