Neuroscience

Perception

Communication

Affect (linguistics)

Family medicine

Psychiatry

Nursing

Medicine

Psychology

Medical prescription

Coping (psychology)

Life and Medical Sciences

Physicians are trying to cope with patients’ potentially inappropriate demands in addition to their intensive work environments. The objectives of this study were to determine physicians’ points of view regarding patient demands, such as requests for inappropriate medical tests, prescription medications, or disability, and to what extent these demands affect physicians. This survey study was completed by conducting face-to-face interviews with the physicians, to determine the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of the 196 physicians working in our institution toward patient demands. Physicians reported that disability-related requests were the most prevalent patient demand (71.4%; n=140). A total of 2.6% (n=5) of the physicians performed laboratory tests that they considered unsuitable, 4.1% (n=8) described inappropriate prescription medication requests, and 2.6% (n=5) reported receiving disability requests from patients that they considered to be inappropriate. It was found that knowing patients formerly or ...

Factors Affecting Physicians' Responses to Patient Demands, Stress Perceptions and Coping Styles