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Brief Supported Lifestyle CounselingModest Interventions Yield Modest Effects
David D. McManus, MD;
Ira S. Ockene, MD
Arch Intern Med. 2008;168(2):129-130.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. . . . The patient must cooperate with the physician in combating the disease.—Hippocrates
Despite Hippocrates' advice, few clinicians or researchers have appreciated the importance of physician counseling in achieving patient treatment goals. Although physicians have amassed a wide array of therapies, poor adherence undermines contemporary medical practice as much today as in Hippocrates' time. Moreover, it has become increasingly difficult for physicians to find the time necessary to counsel patients.1 Limited clinician training and poor systems-based support compound the problem.2 Yet physician counseling has been shown to benefit both individual and public health. The physician-patient relationship remains a potent instrument to improve adherence and promote healthy behaviors.
Efforts to promote physician counseling lead to improved adherence to lifestyle change. Training in healthy lifestyle counseling improves physician skill and patient adherence.3-6 Supported physician . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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