Fighting the Urge to Judge

Lee A. Resnick, MD, FAAFP In a previous column, entitled “Rekindling the Doctor-Patient Relationship”, I focused on methods for developing trust with your patients. The intention of building trust is to enhance patient relationships and ensure positive patient encounters. Judgments can be a significant obstacle to that process, however. In fact, judgments are the surest way to undermine trust, and can potentially lead to delay of appropriate care or to misdiagnosis. Judgments are second only …

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