'Not him again!' Thoughts on coping with irritating elderly patients

¹Family Practice Residency, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA.

|October 1, 1989

Abstract:

Elderly patients are sometimes stereotyped as "crocks" and "gomers"--crotchety chronic complainers beyond help and hope. Difficult as it may be, there is a professional way to respond to patients meeting the description.

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