Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Identifying the Problem: Patient Perspective (continued)

• "We were raised to do what the doctor says; we don't want to offend by questioning them."
• "Doctors need to learn how we think. We are speaking different languages."
• "I am not as compulsive about my own care as I was of my husband's."
• "I don't keep a medication list; my doctor knows what I take."