Put patients to work during their wait timeI talk with lot of

Put patients to work during their wait time
I talk with lot of physicians about the need to improve the quality of communications between physicians and patients. Regular followers of my work will know that I am an advocate for the adoption of patient-centered communication skills by the physician and provider community.Physicians with whom I talk seldom disagree as to the need for better physician-patient communications. They know that physician communication skills top the list of patient complaints about their physicians, i.e., my doctor doesn't listen," "my doctor ignores me," and so on. Rather, they simply dismiss the subject out of hand as being impractical due to a "lack of time" on the part of most physicians.Continue reading ... Follow KevinMD.com on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn.