At least pretend to respect your patients

A NEJM piece on the bare minimum physician etiquette standards:

“[I]t’s simpler to change behavior than attitudes,” Kahn writes. In other words, we won’t get all doctors to respect their patients, but maybe we can get them to act like they do.

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