Show 1165: Can Your Doctor’s Positive Attitude Improve Your Health?
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
We all prefer to interact with people who are friendly, supportive and helpful. But when it comes to health care providers, does “bedside manner” really make a difference? Or is a doctor’s positive attitude irrelevant to the medical outcome?
Does Your Doctor’s Positive Attitude Affect Your Health?
We talk with a scientist who has looked into this question and concluded that “having a doctor who is warm and reassuring actually improves your health.” Doctoral candidate Kari Leibowitz will explain her research and how she reached that conclusion. She also suggests how this effects of a doctor’s positive attitude may be working.
How Does Your Doctor React to Dr. Google?
Many people have told us that if they take the results of an internet search to their doctor visit, the reception can be frosty. Dr. Mike Stang welcomes his patients bringing him their ideas and the information they have found. Does treating patients like partners make a difference in their care? Tell us about your experiences, especially when a doctor’s positive attitude made a difference: 888-472-3366 between 7 and 8 am EDT on Saturday, May 18, 2019. Or send us email: radio@peoplespharmacy.com
This Week’s Guests:
Kari Leibowitz is a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow and doctoral candidate in psychology at Stanford University. Kari works in the Stanford Mind & Body Lab and her research involves leveraging mindsets to improve healthcare experiences and outcomes. https://mbl.stanford.edu/ Her research was published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine in December 2018 and written up in The New York Times. The photo is of Ms. Leibowitz.
Michael T. Stang, MD, is the Chief Quality Officer for Duke Raleigh Hospital in the Duke Medical Center. He is an Associate Professor of Surgery, an endocrine surgeon, and a surgical oncologist.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy. |
| 0:06.1 | You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's pharmacy.com. |
| 0:15.0 | How important is your doctor's attitude about your treatment? |
| 0:19.0 | Does a reassuring bedside manner make a difference? |
| 0:22.0 | This is the people's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe |
| 0:25.8 | Gradyen. The relationship between doctor and patient is extremely important. That's something |
| 0:40.0 | healers have known for thousands of years, but modern health care puts a premium on efficiency |
| 0:45.5 | and technology. Have we lost sight of the value of kindness? |
| 0:50.3 | How does your doctor react when you bring in printouts from a Google search? |
| 0:55.0 | With access to the National Library of Medicine, |
| 0:58.0 | patients can look up the latest information on their conditions. |
| 1:02.0 | Coming up on the people's Pharmacy, your calls and questions about how your doctor's attitude |
| 1:07.2 | has affected your health. |
| 1:10.6 | First, the news. |
| 1:18.0 | In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, generic drug companies are under increasing scrutiny for collusion. The Attorney's General of more than 40 |
| 1:25.1 | states are suing 20 generic drugmakers for fixing prices. The Assistant |
| 1:30.8 | Attorney General in key investigator for the State of Connecticut says, |
| 1:35.0 | This is most likely the largest cartel in the history of the United States. |
| 1:40.0 | It involves 300 drugs, including antibiotics, arthritis medications, HIV treatments, blood thinners, |
| 1:48.3 | cancer drugs, and contraceptives. |
| 1:51.2 | According to the lawsuit, American consumers have lost billions of dollars because they were overcharged. |
| 1:58.0 | It's alleged that executives met face-to-face at industry conferences and social events to divide up the market and |
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