GP surgery staff have warned they are bearing the brunt of growing patient frustration at delays in trying to get an appointment with a doctor. Scotland's GPs claim a £290m funding gap means they can ...

Physicians viewed 17% of patient encounters as difficult, according to a meta-analysis. Patient characteristics associated with perceived difficulty included personality disorders, depression, anxiety ...

GP empathy assessed using the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) Measure was correlated with improved patient enablement, greater satisfaction, and improvement in symptoms in telephone ...

If you worry about becoming the victim of violence as a doctor, you’re not alone — according to a recent Medscape report, 43% of doctors surveyed felt not at all or only slightly protected from ...

At this very moment in time, millions of people will be ringing up their local GP desperately trying to get an appointment. But for Joan Downing, a patient in Doncaster, she’s having a completely ...