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Mary Braun Bates, MD's avatar

Framing is yet another example of why it is important to have a consistent source of primary care. My patients, through years of talking with me, have noticed how I frame things and the manner in which I tend to evaluate and present evidence. If it is not congenial to the manner in which they think, they drift into other doctor's schedules and if it is congenial, they say things like, "I didn't want to do what my specialist said until I talked with you."

The manner of framing is one of the many things that get folded into what a patient means by "I trust my doc."

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The Layperson's Layperson's avatar

Two issues from the patient perspective: doctor's prefer to do something over nothing (commission bias). They prefer compliant patients (compliance bias - I just invented that term no idea if it is an actual concept in the medical research literature). This creates additional pressures on the patient that the doctor is unaware of, since everyone thinks that only other people have biases.

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