When it comes to delivering truly patient-centered care…how are providers supposed to know when they have “arrived”? According to Michael Berry, MD, President of the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, providers will know they have achieved the “pinnacle of...
Everywhere you turn in the health care literature these days we are told how physicians need to do a better job getting patients engaged in their own health. But is lack of patient engagement really the problem? If Patients Are In Their Doctor's Office They Are...
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...