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Patients who feel that you’ve heard and understood them are more likely to follow your treatment advice. Here are tips to help.

Use these tips to help you maximize each patient encounter. They'll help you get your message across in a clear, understandable way.

Patient information extends your office visit beyond the few minutes you can spend face-to-face. You can increase compliance and cooperation even further by using patient education materials in ways that help patients learn and remember more of your advice.

This is helpful information about what to look for when selecting online educational materials for your patients.

During each clinical encounter, there are moments that arise naturally as ideal "teaching moments." Here's a quick summary of how to apply the ideas to a typical patient encounter to build trust and compliance.

Electricity, chemicals, steam, very hot water, and fire can all cause serious burns. The care you receive for burns will depend on the type and severity of your injury. Many burns can be treated in an outpatient setting. If a burn needs inpatient treatment, it should be performed in a burn center. Very severe burns need treatment in a burn center.

Cardioversion is a procedure that is done to return your heartbeat to a normal rhythm. It's done when the heart is beating very fast or has an irregular beat.

An implantable loop recorder is a device that records information about how your heart is working.

Conjunctivodacryocystorhinostomy (say "kun-junk-tih-voe-dak-ree-oh-sis-tuh-rye-NAWS-tuh-mee"), or CDCR, is often used to treat blocked tear ducts. This problem can be caused by trauma, failed surgery, or disease. CDCR is also called Jones tube...