Insider Insights: 10 Guidelines for Excelling as a Patient From an ER Doctor

No one wants to come to the ER, but if you need to be there, you may as well try to have the best experience possible. As a board-certified and veteran emergency physician, perhaps I can help future emergency department patients (AKA: EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU) by offering similar common-sense rules regarding how one could be a good ER patient. In a book that I wrote for healthcare professionals, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Changing-Think-about-Difficult-Patients/dp/0996663215" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Changing How We Think About Difficult Patients: A Guide for Physicians and Healthcare Professionals,</a> I discuss how one in five interactions between doctors, nurses, and patients or their families go badly. Much of the problem starts with how doctors and nurses define who is a “good” patient and what good behavior is. <a href="https://medium.com/illumination-curated/insider-insights-10-guidelines-for-excelling-as-a-patient-from-an-er-doctor-19fe8d6b6f3b">Read More</a>