title: Difficult patients.
abstract: All doctors have a cluster of patients they class as 'difficult'; patients whose name on an appointment list or whose face in the waiting room makes their heart sink or their blood pressure rise. The purpose of this article is to help the consultant to handle such patients more successfully.
authors.affiliation: University of Aberdeen.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Short
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003253:Consultants / Q000523:psychology*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008306:Malingering / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D009110:Munchausen Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations