Your thoughts about patients are costing you time and energy
Difficult patients.
We’ve all encountered them.
Maybe we are them. (After all, they say doctors make the worst patients, and there’s probably some truth to that.)
But what makes a patient “difficult”?
Is it someone with multiple complex medical issues or a condition you haven’t been able to diagnose or don’t fully understand?
Is it someone with many questions, especially right at the end of their visit?
Is it someone who doesn’t follow your treatment plan …