Proposal for Improved Efficiency through Taped Patient Encounter

Rethinking the difficult patient encounter.

Laura is a 49-year-old woman with posttraumatic stress disorder and chronic headaches who takes 200 mg of morphine twice daily and is in an electric wheelchair for no clear reason. Peter is a 53-year-old, morbidly obese man with poorly controlled Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Despite multiple visits focusing on lifestyle changes and medication adjustments, his A1C remains wildly uncontrolled and hi...

Searching for moral certainty in medicine: a proposal for a new model of the doctor-patient encounter.

Esports Analytics Through Encounter Detection

Esports is computer games played in a competitive environment, and analytics in this domain is focused on player and team behavior. Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) games are among the most played digital games in the world. In these games, teams of players fight against each other in enclosed arena environments, with a complex gameplay focused on tactical combat. Here we present a techni...

Humor in the physician-patient encounter.

M edicine is serious business, but physicians have always tried to balance the heavier aspects of their work with humor and lightness. Hippocrates, for example, wrote that physicians should cultivate a serious and respectable image, but at the same time he advised them to use wit in interacting with their patients because “dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and to the sick.” While humor ...

[Patient-centeredness of medical students during a real patient encounter and a standardized patient encounter on the clinical performance examination].

PURPOSE Patient-centered care is one of the most important factors of high-quality medical care. Medical educators have been increasingly interested in education for patient-centered care. This study was conducted to guide such education by assessing the patient-centeredness of medical students in a real patient encounter and a standardized patient encounter on the clinical performance examinat...