How Respected Family Physicians Manage Difficult Patient Encounters
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How respected family physicians manage difficult patient encounters.
BACKGROUND Nearly all family physicians have patients that engender a sense of frustration or dislike, often described as "difficult." Most research in this area focuses on describing these patients and their physicians, not management or coping. OBJECTIVE To describe how respected family physicians identify, manage, and cope with difficult patient encounters. METHODS Qualitative semi-struc...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1557-2625,1558-7118
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.19.6.533