Comments on: Patient-Physician Communications: Sometimes It’s the Small Things http://www.healthpolcom.com/blog/2009/02/26/patient-physician-communications-sometimes-its-the-small-things/ Health Policy Consulting and Writing to Improve Quality, Reduce Costs, and Increase Value in US Healthcare Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:15:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Hannah http://www.healthpolcom.com/blog/2009/02/26/patient-physician-communications-sometimes-its-the-small-things/#comment-10599 Hannah Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:39:45 +0000 http://www.healthpolcom.com/blog/2009/02/26/patient-physician-communications-sometimes-its-the-small-things/#comment-10599 How exciting to hear someone other than health communication researchers (and complaining patients!) bring up this topic. As I'm sure you know, non-compliance with treatment (and the subsequent re-visits to the physician) is one of the biggest costs to the healthcare system. I'm that a lot of patients would have raised an eyebrow at the potato treatment (and re-told the story to friends and family), but wouldn't have actually followed the treatment. Thanks for all the great information! How exciting to hear someone other than health communication researchers (and complaining patients!) bring up this topic. As I’m sure you know, non-compliance with treatment (and the subsequent re-visits to the physician) is one of the biggest costs to the healthcare system.

I’m that a lot of patients would have raised an eyebrow at the potato treatment (and re-told the story to friends and family), but wouldn’t have actually followed the treatment.

Thanks for all the great information!

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