Patient Anxiety: Creating a better Environment to Heal

BY: DYLAN CHADWICK

When a patient visits their physician, they’re prone to feeling a little anxious. Diagnoses and treatment plans, loaded with obtuse medical jargon, can put ones mind in a tailspin and set one’s heart a-flutter. Not exactly prime condition to take medical advice. Wary physicians should consider the implications of a patient’s anxiety when dispensing information, in order to ensure they’re communicating clearly and effectively, and in a way that will benefit the patient long after they’ve left the exam room. Here’s some tips on how physicians can key into those feelings, work within them, and help patients feel less anxious in the process.

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