Do You Think That your Doctor Listens To You? This Is What Science Revealed?

Last Updated on January 7, 2021

Once you are allowed to enter that tiny room with the examination table, the little chair, and the fluorescent light, you start counting down and impatiently wait for the doctor to come in, so that you can go over all your symptoms.

But what happens is that your doctor gives you no more than some couple of seconds before he interrupts your talk! Of course, this is so frustrating that it makes you wonder whether he even heard what you were saying!

Well, according to science, your doctors don’t really listen to you! Interested to know more, slide through the Next pages to read on!

A New Study: Doctors Don’t Really Listen To You

According to a recent study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, on average, doctors don’t really listen to what their patients say or have to say!

It is also found that only 1 in 3 doctors give their patients the adequate amount of time to talk while the majority of them will only provide patients with 11 seconds to explain what’s going wrong with them!

And in case they happen to talk more than 11 seconds, doctors will immediately jump in with a word, question, or comment and interrupt the patient’s talk! Researchers videotaped 112 consultations at different clinics around the United States between patients and their doctors and once the recordings were ready, researchers have moved to the next step, which is analyzing!

Researchers tried to analyze the first few minutes of the consultations in the hope to find an answer to your question and guess what? That feeling you tend to have everytime you visit your doctor is definitely true. Your doctor is ‘’too busy to listen to your stories’’ that’s the conclusion researchers came up with!

The study exposes that only 36% of patients were given the chance to explain their reason for coming and visiting the doctor’s office while those who were allowed to talk about what they were experiencing ended up being interrupted 70% of the time.