Are you an obnoxious patient?
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A few months ago, Dr. David Golden says, he had to fire a patient for being obnoxious.
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Ever want to growl "shhhhhh!" to someone who's talking way too loudly on a cell phone? Rather than cause a scene, why not express your sentiments in a card? [Missing Links]
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Too much personal talk by doctors can be bad medicine, according to a study published on Monday in which U.S. researchers sent actors posing as new patients to see doctors in secretly recorded visits.
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Sometimes it's tough for patients to tell the whole story.
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The real question is: why are viewers obsessed with the hospital drama Grey's Anatomy? The answer isn't brain surgery
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You know that annoying tune that you can't place or get out of your head?
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Many cannot help wondering if Alzheimerâs disease has peeled back inhibitions to expose an ugly side that the patient was repressing all along.
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There's an open secret in medicine: Patients lie. They lie about how much they smoke and whether they're taking their medicine. They understate how much they drink and overstate how much they exercise. They feign symptoms to get appointments quicker and ask doctors to hide the truth from insurance companies.
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A complaining patient removed from a medical practice's list has prompted concerns about new doctors' contracts.
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Sometimes it takes one doctor's persistence to help a desperate patient find relief.
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Some mentally ill patients can be mean or bad just like anyone else, and this is not a problem for psychiatry to fix.
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Q I have a co-worker who clips her toenails at her desk. She's been told by another co-worker that this isn't acceptable behavior, but she's still doing it. Could you help us?
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A curious thing happened to one of my psychiatric residents not long ago. One of his patients caught him off guard with a challenging question: âHave you ever been in psychotherapy yourself?â
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Feeling blue? Unloved? As if nobody appreciates you? Maybe no one can see your inner wonderfulness. Or maybe you deserve to be forsaken. Maybe you are unloved because you're such a jerk, simply unlovable. Maybe you're a victim of the old maxim: "If you can't say anything nice . . . "
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We spotlight people and products that pester us...and the heroes saving us from annoyances.
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Breast implants lead to inappropriate work behavior in the video short Small Talk. In Table of Malcontents.
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By DR DANNY PENMAN DOCTOR Penny Sartori was barely halfway through her night shift at Morriston Hospital in Swansea when one of her patients began behaving in a most peculiar way.