- Patient Resources - American Medical Association
Stay on top of the latest developments related to patient education Browse the AMA’s patient education resources, full of information and tools that physicians can share with their patients, including educational handouts for patients and other patient education materials
- What doctors wish patients knew about peripheral artery disease
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines In this installment, Charles C Leithead, MD, a vascular surgeon at Ochsner Health in New Orleans and Gretna, Louisiana, discusses what to know about peripheral artery disease
- What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™ - American Medical Association
What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™ When it comes to effective doctor-patient communication, it's important that both parties are speaking from a base of shared knowledge The American Medical Association provides a space where physicians share what they want patients to understand about today's health care headlines
- What doctors wish patients knew about sciatica
In this installment, Kevin Taliaferro, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at Henry Ford Health, took time to discuss what patients need to know about sciatica Henry Ford Health is a member of the AMA Health System Program, which provides enterprise solutions to equip leadership, physicians and care teams with resources to help drive the future of medicine
- The do’s and donts of calling out a patients bad behavior
Most physicians will encounter patient comments that are rude—or worse Be prepared with a ready reply and an understanding of the ethics involved
- 7 steps to improve scheduling in your outpatient practice
Learn with the AMA about how to “ride the wave” to more efficiently schedule visits in your family medicine or outpatient practice
- Ageism has an impact on older-adult patients—and their physicians
The discussion was moderated by William B Jordan, MD, MPH, who is senior director of equity policy and transformation at the AMA Center for Health Equity Panelists examined the quality of care older-adult physicians provide, how age-related biases affect older-adult physicians, and how ageism affects patients’ care experience
- What doctors wish patients knew about myocarditis
Inflammation of the heart sounds scary—and it can be Lauren Weber, MD, a cardiologist at Confluence Health, discusses what to know about myocarditis
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