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- Patient Resources - American Medical Association
Stay on top of the latest developments related to patient education Browse the AMA’s patient education resources, full of information and tools that physicians can share with their patients, including educational handouts for patients and other patient education materials
- What doctors wish patients knew about peripheral artery disease
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines In this installment, Charles C Leithead, MD, a vascular surgeon at Ochsner Health in New Orleans and Gretna, Louisiana, discusses what to know about peripheral artery disease
- What patients really want—and why its important for their health
Getting patients to make healthy lifestyle choices ranks high on every physician’s professional wish list But realistically accomplishing this goal requires care teams to zero in on what really patients really want
- Do’s and don’ts for effective patient-physician communication
In a table, the authors provided examples of do’s and don’ts for effective communication with patients and how they align with different goals and strategies, as outlined below
- What doctors wish patients knew about atrial fibrillation
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines
- What I wish I knew in medical school about standardized patients
At some point during medical school, nearly all students will encounter standardized patients, also referred to as simulated patients Standardized patients are trained to portray realistic encounters in which medical students can get key experiences that focus on both clinical and communication aspects of medicine Now a first-year ophthalmology resident physician at Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye
- The do’s and donts of calling out a patients bad behavior
Most physicians will encounter patient comments that are rude—or worse Be prepared with a ready reply and an understanding of the ethics involved
- Patients’ stories push lawmakers to act on prior authorization
Critical changes are need to fix the time-wasting, care-delaying payer process Highlighting prior authorization’s patient impact goes a long way
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