Chatty Doctors Dispense More Than Advice
Seems like doctors are chatting it up more with their patients--about their own personal lives.
A study from the Archives of Internal Medicine found that among 100 primary-care doctors in the Rochester, New York, found that a third of the physicians doctors t about themselves and that there was no evidence that any of the doctors’ disclosures about themselves helped patients or established rapport.
The story, in today's New York Times, uses the following real conversation between patient and doctor:
Doctor: Is that up a little bit for you, weightwise?Patient: It might be up a few pounds. I used to jog and I just haven’t ...
Doctor: See, ’cause I’m weighing more like 172, 173 and I’m six foot. And I’m still running. I’m doing the 5 and 10 and 15 K’s. The half marathons and ...
Patient: So, I’m 30 pounds heavier than you?
Doctor: Right now, yeah.
Read the rest of the story in the New York Times