title: Upholding standards of care for difficult patients.
abstract: Adverse encounters with patients can frustrate any physician. The dilemma arises, however, when physicians allow these frustrations to negatively affect their practice of medicine. Treating all patients respectfully should be the standard, but maintaining this standard is difficult for some physicians.
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authors.lastname: Ojascastro
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006678:HIV; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D010349:Patient Compliance; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011287:Prejudice; D013240:Stereotyping; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders