When you receive a diagnosis of heart failure or cancer, your world stops on a dime. The myriad appointments, labs and tests can be overwhelming. But at LMH Health, there are people whose job is ...

Nearly one-fifth of adult patient encounters in non-psychiatric settings were considered difficult by physicians, a meta-analysis found. The prevalence of difficult encounters was 17% across 10 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At least once a week, Emily L. Weis, MD, MS, says she has a challenging consult or patient interaction in her ...

Join Liz Price on 5 May at 7pm as she discusses how to navigate challenging patient contacts in dental practice.

When Elaine Benes on Seinfeld discovers she was labeled as a “difficult patient” in her medical chart, hilarity ensues when she tries to correct the record—and makes matters worse. But in real life, ...

Caring for people with disabilities is second nature to Amy Seabolt. Her younger brother, Ben Derryberry, is nonverbal and has severe autism, and she often felt like his second mom, attending doctor ...

In medicine, we are trained to focus on diagnosis, evidence-based treatment and patient outcomes. Increasingly, one of the biggest obstacles to providing care is not figuring out what is wrong, but ...

For patients with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis who have exhausted other treatment options, a new combination therapy ...