nytimes.com:
What do you want from your doctor, especially if you have a serious or life-threatening illness?
Researchers who conducted interviews a few years ago with 192 patients at the Mayo Clinics in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Rochester, Minn., identified seven "ideal physician behaviors." Patients want their doctors to be "confident, empathetic, humane, personal, forthright, respectful and thorough," the researchers wrote in Mayo Clinic Proceedings in 2006.
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What about willing to fight against your insurance company? If you have a serious illness, your doctor cannot be intimidated by these companies and give you the treatment that you deserve.
It's hard to talk to people who are so busy looking at your wallet that they don't see you.
SangZe
In such a case, find people who are ot looking at your wallet and that includes doctors.
Though the wallet lookers are most everywhere.
Norge
And have good humor-:)
Two way communication. Talk With and Not To your doctor or anyone and the communication will be interavtive and not passive with both parties partisipating Such is the way of solutions which will be satisfactory to both paties
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First Posted: 06- 9-09 10:15 AM | Updated: 06- 9-09 10:18 AM