An actor walks into a doctor’s office…

Podcast: An Arm and a Leg (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: An actor walks into a doctor’s office…Pub date: 2019-07-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDr. Saul Weiner is a physician and researcher at Jesse Brown VA Medical Center and the University of Illinois at Chicago. (Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin)Researcher Saul Weiner has been sending fake patients — actors, wired for sound — into real doctors’ offices, to learn about what actually happens, especially: How well doctors really listen to their patients.He’s tallied up what doctors miss (a lot), and how much it costs (ditto). In today’s episode, we hear what actually happened in one of those “secret shopper” doctor visits — with the doctor and the actor who played his patient reading from the transcript of their visit, and then unpacking what went wrong.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from An Arm and a Leg, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.