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Dr. Morris-Singer says it helps to show your doctors that you recognize the pressure they face.
莫里斯-辛格博士說，向你的醫生表明你意識到他們所面臨的壓力，這是有幫助的。
When your physician comes into the room, say something like, “How are you doing?
當你的醫生進到房間后，說些類似下面的話，“你好嗎？
I know it can’t be easy being in health care these days.”
我知道現在做醫療工作不容易。”
Asking about family, travel plans, or other personal details helps you connect on a human level.
詢問家庭、旅行計劃或其他個人細節可以幫助你建立人際關系。
When the exam is underway, ask your doctor whether you can see the notes he or she is typing (“Do you mind if I take a look?”),
芝加哥大學的醫學博士洛麗塔·阿庫雷希研究了計算機對醫患關系的影響。
suggests Lolita Alkureishi, MD, of the University of Chicago, who has studied the impact computers have had on the doctor- patient relationship.
她建議，在做檢查時，詢問你的醫生，是否你可以看看他或她正在記錄的病歷（“我看一下可以嗎？”）。
I tried this at my most recent physical, and my doctor didn’t seem to mind.
我在最近一次體檢中嘗試了這個方法，我的醫生似乎并不介意。
I even pointed out that the system still listed a prescription I was no longer taking.
我甚至指出，該系統仍然列出了我不再服用的處方。
Steven Feldman, MD, PhD, a dermatologist at Wake Forest School of Medicine, has his own strategy for building relationships with his patients.
醫學博士史蒂文·費爾德曼是維克森林醫學院的皮膚科醫生，他有自己的與病人建立關系的策略。
He discovered that they are more likely to take their prescriptions
他發現，如果他給病人一張印著他手機號碼的名片，
if he gives them a business card with his cell phone number and asks them to call him in three days to tell him how the medicine is working.
讓他們在三天內給他打電話，告訴他藥物的效果，他們就更有可能采取他們的處方。
“They can’t believe I give them my cell phone number. It establishes both trust and accountability,” he says.
“他們不敢相信我給了他們我的手機號碼。它建立了信任和責任，”他說。
Unfortunately, Pete’s difficulty getting in to see both his primary care doctor and the neurologist dented our confidence that he would get the care he needed.
不幸的是，皮特很難同時去看他的初級護理醫生和神經科醫生，這削弱了我們對他能得到他需要的治療的信心。
And then things got scarier. The MRI showed that Pete had a meningioma,
然后事情就變得更加可怕。核磁共振結果顯示皮特患有腦膜瘤，
the “good” kind of brain tumor, the neurologist explained to us, because it is usually benign.
神經科醫生向我們解釋，它是那種良性的腦瘤，因為它通常是良性的。
But Pete’s was large, and it was wrapped around his carotid artery,
但是皮特的腦膜瘤很大，它纏繞在他的頸動脈上，
pressing on his optic nerve and extending into the speech center of his brain.
壓迫他的視神經并延伸到他大腦的語言中樞。
The neurologist sent us straight to a neurosurgeon, supposedly the best in the city.
神經科醫生直接把我們送到了一個神經外科醫生那里，據說是城里最好的神經外科醫生。
