Motivational interviewing can help patients take a step towards better health. For patients who are reluctant to make changes, try motivational interviewing to help them set goals. As providers, we ...

The surge in healthcare consumerism is empowering patients with more autonomy and choices than ever when it comes to “shopping around for care.” In fact, industry research shows approximately 30% of ...

I appreciate Laura Landro's excellent "Informed Patient" column "Teaching Doctors How to Interview" (Personal Journal, Sept. 21). Let's be honest. When it comes to communication, doctors fall into one ...

Dartmouth medical student Nsomma Alilonu and Professor Thomas Thesen test the interactive voice component on their AI Patient Actor app, which allows students to practice talking to a simulated ...

doctor angry patient Monthly Prescribing Reference spoke with Karen Broquet, MD, MHPE, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry, ...

Dec. 8, 2003 — Editor's Note: The Coaching Patients On Achieving Cardiovascular Health (COACH) strategy is highly effective in reducing total cholesterol and many other cardiovascular risk factors in ...

The way the MintHealth platform is designed to function is through the Vidamint token. Through this, MintHealth sets out to tackle two fundamental problems in healthcare today. First is the lack of a ...

Madeleine Pahl, MD Focusing on nephrology patients who become pregnant may seem to be a niche business, but as specialist Madeleine Pahl, MD, tells Renal & Urology News, this population is increasing.

Sometimes patients’ anger comes from a sense of entitlement. These patients can be manipulative and play on our guilt. We often respond by getting angry ourselves or wanting to “put them in their ...