How patients perceive a doctor's caring attitude.

Mark Quirk; Kathleen M. Mazor; Heather-Lyn Haley; Mary Philbin; Melissa Fischer; Kate Sullivan; David Hatem

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How patients perceive a doctor's caring attitude.

September 24, 2008

Quirk M, Mazor KM, Haley H-L, et al. Patient Educ Couns. 2008;72(3):359-366.

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This study conducted patient focus groups and video simulated scenarios to highlight and characterize physician behaviors around caring. Interestingly, the same behaviors that were interpreted as caring by some were viewed as uncaring by others.

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