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 ...

THIS is the team which provides vital medical help to Liverpool's difficult patients. The team at the Riverside centre in Park Street, Toxteth, works with patients who are violent and abusive and have ...

A handful of awkward patients can make life a misery for a practice. It's worth having procedures in place in case problems arise, says MDU adviser Dr Michael Devlin GPs may have a good relationship ...

Some patients continually cancel their appointments, ignore your medical directions, treat your staff rudely, or send you harassing emails. Do you have to tolerate their behavior? No, these are all ...

When Elaine Benes on Seinfeld discovers she was labeled as a “difficult patient” in her medical chart, hilarity ensues when she tries to correct the record—and makes matters worse. But in real life, ...

It’s no secret that some patients can be incredibly challenging to look after, but what exactly constitutes a difficult patient? Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ clinical articles, ...

For those with the misfortune to fear they are in the grip of a serious illness, there is a new tactic to significantly improve the chances of survival - be very polite to the doctor. A study has ...

Forty years ago, I had my most angry professional moment. It happened at a weekly meeting that included all our faculty, staff, and trainees—about 200 people. A young and arrogant, not very bright, ...

Have you ever felt like a “bad patient?” It might not be all in your head if you think a doctor is annoyed with you. When I began working in hospitals and clinics, I learned of an ominous ...

A woman died after contracting a hospital superbug, an inquest heard. But Sarah Lindsay Sutherland-Beatson, 41, of Whitley Road, Eastbourne, would probably have recovered if she had not neglected ...