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I very much appreciated your editorial "Bridging the Patient-Doctor
Communication Gap." As both a provider and a patient I found it very
enlightening. I would like to share this article with my colleagues.
Perhaps another issue concerning communication between providers and
patients is that the provider is not going to jump to a "worst case
scenario" but will rule out the most common disease processes first thereby
requiring multiple office visits. This can be very frustrating for a patient
who not only has to pay for an office visit, trial different medications,
and also expect the provider to have a crystal ball.
I am also aware that many providers and surgeons, as you noted in your
editorial, may consider a successful outcome to be different than the
patients, and in this point in time when the risk of litigation is so high,
providers do not always share fully due to their conversations being taken
out of context and used against them.
Thank you for a very thought provoking article
Pam Pastore, NP
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