'Difficult' exhibitions and intimate encounters

Managing Difficult Encounters: Understanding Physician, Patient, and Situational Factors <FEFF>[Query: Should Difficult Patient Encounters be changed to Difficult Clinical Encounters for consistency with the text?]

D ifficult encounters are estimated to represent 15 to 30 percent of family physician visits. Factors contributing to these difficult clinical encounters may be related to the physician, patient, situation, or a combination. Physicians can recognize these visits as challenging by acknowledging their feelings of angst or helplessness generated during the conversation. These encounters are also c...

How respected family physicians manage difficult patient encounters.

BACKGROUND Nearly all family physicians have patients that engender a sense of frustration or dislike, often described as "difficult." Most research in this area focuses on describing these patients and their physicians, not management or coping. OBJECTIVE To describe how respected family physicians identify, manage, and cope with difficult patient encounters. METHODS Qualitative semi-struc...

Using mindfulness techniques to improve difficult clinical encounters.

Difficult clinical encounters add to other persistent sources of stress for physicians today, increasing the risk of burnout. In this issue of American Family Physician, Cannarella Lorenzetti and colleagues address these challenges by encouraging physicians to review contributing factors to difficult clinical encounters, and to use listening and communication skills to better handle challenging...

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