How to Build a Positive and Healthy Relationship with your Doctor
For Immediate Release – December 16, 2010
Denver, Colorado
A Guide to Help You Increase the Quality of Care You Receive
Establishing a strong relationship with your health care provider can be tricky but once that special bond is formed, the quality of care you receive will drastically improve. We’ve all had those appointments that have left us with unanswered questions, confusion over a diagnosis and the feeling of being let down by the one individual into whom we put our trust. It’s obvious that for a doctor-patient relationship to truly have meaning – there must be a level of trust. The question is -- how do we allow our physicians to earn that trust?
The Society of Certified Senior Advisors has created a powerful ‘Doctor-Patient Relationship’ guide that will provide you with tips on how to effectively communicate with your physician – before, during and after your visit; important questions to ask during your visit; and accompanying forms that will allow you to list all of your medications, the symptoms you are experiencing and a list of health care providers who have or are currently treating you.
Excerpts from guide, How to Get Better Healthcare:
“The general rules when dealing with a doctor who is overseeing your healthcare are to:
- Ask any questions you have at the time you have them.
- Share all health-related information, don’t wait to be asked.
“The most effective way to address your concerns is to compile a list of questions before each visit to the doctor or between visits with your doctor as you encounter issues that affect your health. Don’t hesitate to call your doctor, if you are in doubt between visits about how something related to your health should be handled. To find the right doctor, you can set up an interview appointment and have some general questions answered about the doctor and to feel out the comfort level you have with that doctor.
To obtain a copy of this free guide, How to Get Better Healthcare, and learn important tips and questions to ask your healthcare provider, please visit http://www.csa.us/docs/HowtoGetBetterHealthCare.pdf
Here are some other related guides that might be of interest to you:
How Healthcare Reform Affects Seniors
Nursing Home Checklist
What You Need to Know About Long-Term Care
The Society of Certified Senior Advisors (SCSA) provides free resources and tools for our members as an ongoing commitment that we have in helping professionals to understand the complex and dynamic lives of modern senior citizens.
About SCSA
SCSA’s mission is to educate professionals to work more effectively with their senior clients. For those who work with seniors, this means understanding the key health, social and financial factors that are important to seniors—and how these factors work together. CSAs are able to integrate this into their professional practices, no matter what field they’re in. They’ve learned how incredibly gratifying it is to help seniors achieve their goals, and the seniors they’ve worked with have learned how important it is to work with someone who truly understands their age-related circumstances. For more information about SCSA and its educational course, please visit www.csa.us.
Contact:
Erica Ananich, SCSA
(800) 653-1785
society@csa.us
www.csa.us/blog
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