{"title":"Upholding standards of care for difficult patients.","authors":"A Ojascastro","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adverse encounters with patients can frustrate any physician. The dilemma arises, however, when physicians allow these frustrations to negatively affect their practice of medicine. Treating all patients respectfully should be the standard, but maintaining this standard is difficult for some physicians.</p>","PeriodicalId":80662,"journal":{"name":"Bioethics forum","volume":"16 3","pages":"17-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bioethics forum","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Adverse encounters with patients can frustrate any physician. The dilemma arises, however, when physicians allow these frustrations to negatively affect their practice of medicine. Treating all patients respectfully should be the standard, but maintaining this standard is difficult for some physicians.