Even if you have a five-star customer service practice, you'll still have patients who are deemed difficult. The difficult patient often upsets the staff, sends negative reverberations throughout the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At least once a week, Emily L. Weis, MD, MS, says she has a challenging consult or patient interaction in her ...

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 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — When you think of artificial intelligence, you probably think of Siri and self-driving cars. But one Texas professor is bringing it into her classes to help physical therapy students ...

Every dentist has probably had patients with unrealistic expectations, a penchant for practice-hopping, or not complying with treatment plans. One presenter at the Chicago Dental Society 2025 ...

On this week's "My Unsung Hero" from Hidden Brain, Mark Metersky was a medical student at a New York City hospital. He was frustrated with one of his patients when he saw something that surprised him.

Medical schools and residency programs are under pressure to train doctors who are good communicators and compassionate with patients. It's a huge challenge, as young doctors are overworked and often ...

The turbulence started just as Erin opened her laptop. A founder-turned-podcast-host, she’d been traveling for weeks—sponsorship meetings, recordings, partner dinners. Now, somewhere over the Midwest, ...

Anesthesiologists should not start with the consideration of how to handle difficult intubation, but rather the other variables that affect outcome of patients presenting with impaired cardiopulmonary ...

A discrete choice experiment (DCE) revealed no meaningful difference in preference between dual biologic therapy (DBT) or monotherapy among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who had ...