Up This Week: "Difficult" Patients: Questioning Authority | The Rising Tide of Rudeness

A look at what is coming up on Radio Health Journal for the week of March 31, 2019 including: Patients used to accept doctors’ orders without question. Today, more are asking questions and challenging their doctors’ opinions. However, even those who do it politely are likely to be labeled “difficult.” A doctor whose late wife nearly made a career of being a difficult patient discusses how patients can do it respectfully and fruitfully. Then, Studies show a rudeness epidemic in the US, and that people are profoundly affected when they experience or even witness it occurring to someone else. Two experts discuss.