You want your patients to be active and involved in their own health care — but that doesn’t mean you want them to spend hours on Google second-guessing you. Statistics gathered by Pew Research Center, however, indicate that roughly 35% of the adults in this country have turned to online sources for information that they can use to self-diagnose — instead of trusting their doctors.
So, how do you handle this kind of problem patient? On one hand, you don’t want to order a bunch of expensive and unnecessary diagnostic tests just to prove to your patient that they’re wrong. On the other hand, you don’t want to end up being sued for medical malpractice if they happen to be right.
Here are some suggestions that may help:
Medical malpractice claims may still happen, but you’ll never have to worry that you were cavalier or dismissive about a patient’s concerns.
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