When choosing a healthcare provider, what types of personal characteristics do you desire most?
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Please feel free to provide reasoning for your responses.
January 31st, 2009 at 8:51 am
One who listens,then speaks.
One who doesn’t say to me “What do you think it is?”
One who doesn’t talk over my head.
One who is friendly, but professional.
One who,even if my question is a little weird,doesn’t treat me like it is.
One who accepts that my healthcare is my decision. What I choose to do or not do will be treated with respect.
January 31st, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Honesty, forthright actions, good sense of humor compassion
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:22 am
One that gets you in to your appointment on time and spends at least 7 minutes determining what the problem is before writing a prescription.
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:12 am
Technical expertise and a little bit of humility. Nothing in medicine is certain, so the guy who’s too sure of himself worries me a bit. The old surgical axiom, “often wrong but never in doubt” only works when there’s no time for uncertainty.
I really don’t care about personality or communications if it doesn’t impede care. If I want to know something, I’ll ask.