[tweetmeme source=”Healthmessaging” only_single=false]The most popular post on my blog is entitled Five Reasons Why People Do Not Ask Their Doctor Questions. Well it seems there is a sixth reason. The Reason? I am forever reminded of this when I see my retinal surgeon...
[tweetmeme source=”Healthmessaging” only_single=false]My favorite blog, besides Mind the Gap, is KevinMD.com. It's not just because they let me do a guest post now and then. I like it because it is a great place to interact with lots of other readers, particularly...
My wife had just finished meeting with her medical oncologist for her bi-annual check-up at MD Anderson’s Thoracic Clinic. We were sitting in an area called “the Park” rehashing what her doctor had said when a mother and her daughter sat down at our table. There...
Many of my readers are curious about patient question asking behavior during a trip to the doctor. The fact that most of us ask few “important” questions during a routine (or not-so-routine) physician visit seems very counter intuitive. After all, conventional...
[tweetmeme source="Healthmessaging" only_single=false]Physician-patient communications today are riddled with communication gaps according to researchers. These communication gaps often have significant implications, i.e., misdiagnosis, patient confusion and overuse...
A neighbor of mine was diagnosed with breast cancer about the same time was wife was being treated for lung cancer. I saw my neighbor the other day for the first time in several years. I asked her how she was doing. She said great. In turn I asked her how her...
The New York Time reported recently on efforts by providers and payers to increase patient medication adherence through the use financial incentives paid to patients. The article cited the use of small financial payments (<$100), awarded via lotteries, to patients...
Ask your doctor. I think most of us would agree that is good advice…at least up to the point that we find ourselves sitting half naked on an exam table in our doctor’s office. Then the doctor walks in and for some reason many of us just “clam up.” Patient...
If "lack of time" is the chief barrier to better (aka patient-centered) physician-patient communications, it logically follows that longer patient appointments are the solution. Ok…lets’ say that I could wave a magic wand and add 5 or even 10 more minutes to the...