4 Lessons Physicians Can Learn From Restaurants

In a KevinMD blog post, Neil Baum, MD, a urologist at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans, discusses four lessons that physicians can learn from restaurants to improve patient satisfaction.

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The four lessons are:

1. Make a concerted effort to touch someone — a handshake, a gentle touch on the shoulder, etc.
2. Maintain eye contact.
3. Give them something extra, for example restaurants often deliver peppermints with the check. Physicians could perhaps offer free additional written material on the patient’s disease.
4. End each encounter by saying something positive.

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