Terminating patient relationships: How to dismiss without abandoning
While both the physician and patient have the right to terminate the relationship, the requirements for ending the relationship are more complicated for physicians.
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Patient Relationships
Advice and resources to help you protect and improve the physician-patient relationship.
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Sample patient dismissal letters
Sample letters for termination of the physician-patient relationship
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Informed refusal: When patients decline treatment
Recommendations to help minimize the risk of lawsuits related to patient refusals.
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Treating minors in Texas: Answers to your questions
Physicians must balance parental rights, a minor’s autonomy, and the law.
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ADA requirements for physician offices
Best practices for providing reasonable accommodations for disabled patients
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Advance directives — questions from physicians
An “Advance directive” is a legal document designed to help patients communicate their wishes about medical treatment if they become unable to make their wishes known because of illness or injury.
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Terminating the Patient-Physician Relationship (2nd edition)
Navigating appropriate notice, difficult patients, closing a practice, and more.
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TrendsMD podcast: How to terminate the patient-physician relationship
Two of TMLT’s risk management experts discuss how to dismiss a patient safely and effectively, including typical scenarios that can make the process more difficult.
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25 phrases to help you de-escalate angry patients
Read about practical ways to manage difficult patient interactions
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De-escalation techniques and resources
Learn how to de-escalate angry patients or diffuse a tense situation in the office.
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Managing difficult patients
Tips for managing challenging patient relationships
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TMB rules for physicians who retire, close, or leave a practice
Retiring, closing, or leaving a practice? You can now notify patients electronically and on your website.
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Patient diversity and cultural competence
As the diversity of our population increase, more physicians are coming into contact with patients from various cultural backgrounds who often hold different values, beliefs and standards.
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Addressing transgender health care disparities
This presentation brings awareness to transgender health care disparities and examines how practicing cultural competency can improve patient-physician relationships.
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Tips for handling patient complaints
Strong complaint management is a core component for success worth cultivating and honing.
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What every physician needs to know about online reputation management
Have you ever taken the time to Google yourself or your practice? What did you find? Was the information accurate? Did you find a “review” of your practice among the results? What would a patient conc
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Practice fined for response to social media review
Dallas dental practice fined $10,000 after publishing PHI in response to a patient review on Yelp
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Terminating the Physician-Patient Relationship, Part 1
When dealing with difficult patients, physicians are sometimes left with no other viable alternative than to terminate the physician-patient relationship. Coming to that conclusion is not easy and may
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Terminating the Physician-Patient Relationship, Part 2
When dealing with difficult patients, physicians are sometimes left with no other viable alternative than to terminate the physician-patient relationship. Coming to that conclusion is not easy and may
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Googling Your Patients
Health care professionals are not immune to the lure of social media or the ubiquity of Google.
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