You have questions for your physician, but don't ask them? Your physician has questions for you, but he/she doesn't ask them. That's one hell of a way to run an airline, a railroad, a government, or a medical practice. Why? Fault is besides the point, but difficult or painful questions unasked or unanswered threatens your health and compromises the physician's ability to help. You have something that you want to confide to your physician, but you don't. You sigh with relief when he/she doesn't ask. You're a physician and you need the answers to questions that might make your patient...

Talking To Your Physician is a lighthearted attempt to deal with a potentially serious problem in medical care, the deteriorating relationship between patients and their physicians. As the healthcare system becomes more complicated, expensive, and stressful for both patients and their physicians, especially under Obamacare, we may need, more than ever, to rely on that relationship to guide us through the system. The book makes important observations and specific suggestion about how to improve patient care, reduce malpractice claims, insure patient rights, and allow physicians to practice in...

Talking With Your Physician is a lighthearted attempt to deal with a potentially serious problem in medical care, the deteriorating relationship between patients and their physicians. As the healthcare system becomes more complicated, expensive, and stressful for both patients and their physicians, especially under Obamacare, we may need, more than ever, to rely on that relationship to guide us through the system. The book makes important observations and specific suggestions about how to improve patient care, reduce malpractice claims, insure patient rights, and allow physicians to practice...