PAI 16: Difficult Patients

If you plan on going into medicine, you need to know RIGHT NOW, that not all of your patients will be appreciative, good communicators, reasonable, or even NORMAL. In truth, you will run into plenty of odd, demanding, impatient, inappropriate, or otherwise difficult people that it will be your job to help. Don't let it scare you -- just understand that you'll need to get good at handling them. Stories from a PA on the topic abound in today's episode, along with a few insights on how to handle them. Visit us at http://www.insidepatraining.com for hundreds of articles, the Inside PA Training Forum, the Physician Assistant Program Directory, and more.