Looking at treatment from the patient's perspective

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Physicians should help relieve patients' fears and anxieties about illnesses and treatments by understanding their feelings and emotions. Patients seem to be most afraid of being alone in their anxieties, but listening to patients' problems and speaking encouraging words can also help relieve fears. Physicians are trained to detect routine symptoms and diagnosis illness, but illness and treatment do not seem routine and ordinary to many patients.

Analysis, Physician and patient, Physician-patient relations, Medical professions, Patients, Patient care

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Quality care not tied to financial return

Article Abstract:

A popular definition for quality health care is, providing a patient with the right medicine, treatment, or test at the right time. A research team led by Sheila Leathernman reveals that the movement to improve health care quality, with emphasis on prevention and management of chronic diseases, would produce a financial benefit for primary care physicians

Financial management, Science & research, Management dynamics, Research, Management, Finance, Prevention, Chronic diseases, Medical care, Medical care quality, Company business management, Company financing

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