Posts from August 2014.
How do patients judge their physicians?
A recent survey conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research included random phone calls to 1,000 adults age 18 and older throughout the country to gauge how they evaluate doctors. Almost six in 10 gave a factor they considered most important in measuring a doctor's skill that was linked to the physician's personality and how he or she relates to the patient. Only 29 percent said that delivery of care or the treatment outcome was ...