7 TRAITS OF AN IDEAL DOCTOR

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HI all, think we could give this to our doctors and it'd work? *grin* It was a study done by the Mayo Clinic.

Dee

7 key traits of the ideal doctor

Here are the seven traits listed by the patients, along with the patients' definitions of those traits:

Confident: "The doctor's confidence gives me confidence."

Empathetic: "The doctor tries to understand what I am feeling and experiencing, physically and emotionally, and communicates that understanding to me."

Humane: "The doctor is caring, compassionate, and kind."

Personal: "The doctor is interested in me more than just as a patient, interacts with me, and remembers me as an individual."

Forthright: "The doctor tells me what I need to know in plain language and in a forthright manner."

Respectful: "The doctor takes my input seriously and works with me."

Thorough: "The doctor is conscientious and persistent."

Li says it's natural for patients to want caring caregivers. He drafted a list of seven traits that are the opposite of those mentioned in the study:

Timid

Uncaring

Misleading

Cold

Callous

Disrespectful

Hurried

"Can healthcare really ever be high quality if the patient-physician interaction is hurried, disrespectful, cold, callous, or uncaring?" Li writes.

source: http://www.webmd.com/content/Article/119/113480.htm?printing=true