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...care at New York University School of Medicine. "You wouldn't buy a car the day you needed to get out of town," he says. "You'd want time to shop. You have to do the same when you choose a doctor." Although the concept of meeting with a physician before you sign on as a patient may seem a bit strange, Hiatt says, "there's no reason you can't interview a doctor and say, 'I'd like to consider your taking on my care. Here's the way I look at my medical situation. Can you work with...
...need to feel as though you can share all your concerns with your physician, no matter how absurd you might think they are. "Some of those imagined possibilities are so frightening that people feel embarrassed to share them," says Cope. "Your thoughts could run like this: This is probably only a cold; I hope it's not pneumonia; I sure hope I haven't got leukemia." If you don't share these fears with your doctor--and give him or her a chance to rule out worst-case scenarios--you may continue to have nagging doubts about both the diagnosis...
...people have the idea that doctors prefer to be in charge," Lipkin says, "but we found that physician satisfaction was highest when patients took an active role in their own care...
...Gu’s mother, who is a physician, said her son had not been given adequate warning about the potential harmful effects of the drug...
...would want me to do whatever is possible to prevent the same tragedy from happening again,” Jane Gu said. “Being a physician and being a mother, I don’t want this thing to happen again and I think it could be happening a lot. If I can at all help with my loss, then I want...