"All the time"

It helps physicians to be more specific when describing symptoms.

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Anonymous
Looks like a doctor who needs better interviewing skills. After one or two “all the time” type responses to open ended questions, it is apparent that more restricted questions are required. “Have you had these headaches for more than 6 months?” and so forth. I also find that when I realize that I have the interviewee from Hell, it helps to as soon as that realization dawns and I have gotten all that I am going to get with open ended questions, to let them know that “I need a lot of specific information and I am going to be asking a lot of questions, give me short direct answers, I’ll be interupting often to zero in on what I need.”
Rima Bishara MD
Truth be told, this piece was meant as a teaching tool for patients–to let them know how
to better communicate with a doctor. People sometimes express frustration that they just can’t seem to get their message across to their doctor. Some tips are in order.
Rima Bishara, MD
http://www.thedoctorblogger.com
John J. Coupal
I had to laugh at the FDA caution they sent out last month or December about Tamiflu.
Seems that reports from Japan on usage of Tamiflu in toddlers was associated with delerium and “unusual behavior”.
I thought unusual behavior was normal in a toddler, under the best and worst of circumstances.
FDA’s caution to American parents needed to be a lot more specific in just what “unusual behavior” was occurring, so that a new Mom and Dad were not unnecessarily frazzled.

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