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How to deal with your heart sinking
Published in Peter Davies, Lindsay Moran, Hussain Gandhi, Adrian Roebuck, Clare J Taylor, The New GP′s Handbook, 2022
Communicate with other doctors – sing from the same hymn sheet. Avoid doctor shopping (i.e. where the patient sees many doctors to get a variety of opinions, investigations, referrals and treatments). Young doctors should be particularly wary about being approached by patients wanting ‘a new view on the problem’.
The Opioid Crisis and Relief
Published in Eldo E. Frezza, The Moral Distress Syndrome Affecting Physicians, 2020
“Having a database that can be shared between different pharmacies, hospitals, and doctors’ offices is essential nowadays. Lots of patients in the past were ‘doctor shopping’ to get more drugs from a different office. Therefore, the database will completely solve this doctor shopping.
Talk About the Mind-Body Connection
Published in Scott A. Simpson, Anna K. McDowell, The Clinical Interview, 2019
Patients who are overly focused on somatic symptoms often feel defensive, resistant, or hurt when asked about psychiatric symptoms in the context of a visit for physical symptoms. If the topic is approached poorly, patients may feel invalidated (“Doctors never listen to me.”), judged (“Are you saying it’s all in my head?”), or abandoned by the medical system. This reaction may lead to doctor shopping or avoidance of medical care entirely. However, when physicians are informative and respectful, patients grow more committed to treatment regimens and experience better health.2
Perspectives on HIV PrEP care in Germany: qualitative insights from primary care physicians and specialists
Published in AIDS Care, 2020
Anna-Sophie Plomer, Megan McCool-Myers, Christian Apfelbacher
Several interviewees suggested that routine check-ups should take place at the specialist’s office. Others expressed the view that those tests can be performed by the PCP. Cooperation between HIVPs and PCPs was also recommended. Several participants suggested to adapt to the patient’s wishes as to where the check-ups are performed. Other medical specialists, like venereologists or urologists, were proposed as well. One interviewee however emphasized that “doctor shopping” should be avoided: It should be under one roof, I’d say. Because the one who prescribes it also has to know when [the patient] is coming in for check-up. If [patients] do ‘doctor shopping’, nobody can keep track of it anymore. And it’s a very serious issue. (PCP, 64 yrs, male, urban)
Infertility providers’ and patients’ views and experiences concerning doctor shopping in the USA
Published in Human Fertility, 2019
Poor PCC affects patient satisfaction and decisions elsewhere in medicine (Gemmiti et al., 2017; Martinez et al., 2016) but, the present data suggest, may take particular forms with infertility. Infertility patients accept only one outcome, a ‘take home baby,’ though each IVF cycle succeeds <50%. Children can provide enormous personal meaning, leading many women to pursue childbirth ‘at all costs.’ Women, especially if delaying childbirth for careers, frequently ‘race against the biological clock,’ but have lower success, and may thus readily consider switching providers after treatment failures, yet must then grapple with weighing inter-personal skills. Partly since ARTs are relatively new and still evolving, providers differ in recommendations, fuelled by inter-clinic competition. Providers may criticize colleagues’ approaches and be busy and not well–trained to address patients’ emotional difficulties and at times unrealistic hopes, fostering doctor shopping. Yet questions arise of whether doctor shopping may ever have disadvantages – whether patients may inadvertently sacrifice valuable time, resources and opportunities, not optimally assessing and weighing competing criteria.
Factors influencing patients’ choice of a physiotherapist: a study within the Swiss insurance premium-funded system
Published in European Journal of Physiotherapy, 2019
Elizabeth A. Hintz, Anda M. Hirceaga, Evan K. Perrault
Patients often choose from many physiotherapists when pursuing treatment, and may go to several physiotherapists to find the right fit. This behavior, termed ‘doctor shopping’ has been identified as a descriptor of patients who change doctors during the same illness episode, by reason of dissatisfaction with their care [1]. Researchers began referring to medical care as a commodity over 40 years ago, identifying this shopping behavior in patients while attempting to study its frequency and associated factors [2]. Since then, marketers, healthcare professionals, and researchers have become interested in determining the criteria and information-seeking habits patients use when selecting a healthcare provider [3]. Patients’ culture and embedded norms are among the factors that affect patient choice [4].