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

Last Updated on January 7, 2021

And Those who were allowed to talk and weren’t interrupted have summarized their condition in 6 seconds. So, this way it becomes clear that the brief you talk, the higher are your chances to be heard! So, next time you are visiting your doctor, be smart and craft a brief testimony!

A NEW STUDY DOCTORS DON’T REALLY LISTEN TO YOU

The study also exposes that primary care physicians are better listeners than specialists. Generally, primary care physicians are found to give their patients more time to explain their health condition and the symptoms they are experiencing.

The only explanation that the study has given to this latter discovery is that maybe because specialists have already been briefed on the reason why patients are visiting them!

However, when you take the expensive health care in the United States into consideration, you are definitely not cheered to know that doctors are in such a rush to get you out of there!

According to Naykky Singh Ospina, who is a professor assistant in the division of Endocrinology at the University of Florida, views this matter with a positive attitude and says that the doctor’s interruptions are necessary as they help the doctor to have more clarification about the patient’s condition.

Hence, they are beneficial if done respectfully! However, she added saying that the interruptions made at the early stage in the encounter will definitely provide no clarification and shouldn’t take place! In contrary, they might be the biggest factors that lead to diagnostic errors.

According to another recent study, diagnostic errors, namely 35% of them are not made in hospitals but in the doctor’s office. While another study exposed that 20% of patients who suffer from serious conditions are misdiagnosed by their primary doctors!

The only option you have is to be brief the maximum possible to higher your chances to be heard by your doctor and avoid the long unnecessary talk!

We know that this is horrible because doctors are supposed to listen and you are paying too much money for that consultation but buddy you have no better choice! Better heard than interrupted before you even say all that you need to say, right?