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Men, being "hard-wired for impatience", make bad patients: pregnancy is an exacerbated version of man-flu.
"Research suggests that patients want to participate," Barry says, "but they may be afraid to push back, afraid they'll be labeled bad patients.
In that sense, adolescents were classified into "good patients" -the ones who comply with the doctor's recommendations- and "bad patients".
We discussed our findings using the 'sensitising concept' of legitimacy by drawing on the literature about 'good and bad' patients and 'dirty work designations'.
The "bad" patients were hardly to be motivated, they thought they have everything under control but they were neglectful which was frustrating for the GP.
We utilise theories about the role of legitimacy [ 27], 'good and bad' patients [ 28], and 'dirty work designations' [ 29, 30] following Shaw's study of 'revolving door' psychiatric patients.
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I am not a bad patient, you reply.
It is those simple things that make for a good or bad patient experience.
False documentation of care is not just bad patient care; it's illegal".
Some hospitals, like NYU, get bad patient reviews even as they score average or superior in measures of clinical care from the government and accreditation groups.
She fell victim to "good doc, bad patient" syndrome, she said, when she delayed seeking care for a neck problem that caused numbness in her arm.
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