Getting Your Doctor to Really See You
Society for Participatory Medicine
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
Doctors are regularly deluged with advice on how to engage patients. But how can you, as a patient, get your doctor to truly engage with you as a person? Your health and even your life could depend upon it. By “engage,” I don’t mean just the doctor not interrupting after 11 seconds. That’s the average time a patient talks before the doctor interjects, said a study published earlier this year , down sharply from the “leisurely” 18-23 seconds patients on average spoke uninterrupted in studies fro
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