Every difficult patient is not dangerous. But every high-conflict encounter carries risk. Doctors like to think clinical skill will protect them: It will not. In modern practice, a physician can make a sound decision, communicate it poorly, and still walk into a complaint, a licensing problem, a lawsuit, or public reputational damage. That risk becomes
How to manage a difficult patient and survive a high-conflict encounter originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
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