5 ways new doctors fail at bedside manner
Posted by staff / October 28, 2013 bedside mannerhospital patientsJohns Hopkins University School of MedicineLeonard Feldmanmedical recovery
Doctors-in-training don’t introduce themselves to hospital patients often enough and rarely sit down to talk eye-to-eye, despite research suggesting that courtesy at the bedside improves both medical recovery and patient satisfaction. Researchers call for simple adjustments in interns’ bedside manner that could improve patients’ experience in the hospital.
“Many times when I sit down, patients say, ‘Oh my God, is something wrong?’ because I actually bothered to take a seat,” says Leonard Feldman, assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an associate director of the hospital’s internal medicine residency program. “People . . . shouldn’t be taken aback when they actually do. It’s part of being a doctor.”
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[…] Doctors-in-training don’t introduce themselves to hospital patients often enough and rarely sit down to talk eye-to-eye, despite research suggesting that courtesy at the bedside improves both medical recovery and patient satisfaction. […]