Does your doctor consider you a “difficult patient?” Maybe you don’t know what your doctor thinks about you, but his or her perceptions could be important when it comes to your health. A new study has discovered that about one quarter of all patients is considered difficult, and they’re more likely than others to stay sick.
In the study, researchers surveyed 750 adults who visited an internal medicine walk-in clinic. They also surveyed physicians who treated the patients and found that the doctors rated about 18% of the patients as being difficult.
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