Recent studies and new articles clearly indicate that physicians must be educated to routinely ask patients about their wishes for medical care and to recognise that they are legally and morally bound to honour those requests [ 4].
Will patients ever really be educated enough to ask for generic drugs, or should the responsibility fall to physicians?
We discussed how important it was to be educated, to be curious and to ask questions.
Studies have shown that older and lower educated patients tend to ask fewer questions during their visit with their physician, and might therefore receive less information [ 25, 26].
Large cancer centres ideally should have in-house sexual dysfunction clinics including specialists in mental health, sexology, gynaecology, and urology, with outreach to cancer site-specific clinics across the institution to educate and encourage HCPs to ask about sexual issues, provide basic information, and make referrals.
Interventions that educate and activate patients to ask questions about their CKD, voice their concerns when they do not understand physician' explanations and address their dissatisfaction with the clinical encounter may help foster a stronger and more balanced patient provider relationship [ 16].
Let them make an educated decision as to whether to ask for your number, and go to sleep knowing that you are a decent, honest human being.
They will also have the wisdom, like their mother, to educate those who are fearful to ask the questions about race in order to claim the respect necessary to be called what we prefer based on any of our given identities.
Chinese immigrants with diabetes held the view that the responsibility of doctors and nurses is to cure rather than to educate; therefore, they were hesitant to ask doctors and nurses for health information during usual medical consultations (HL2).
As you choose which resources you'll use to educate yourself, ask your husband to use them too.
