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- How does a patient’s motivation towards their health care facilitate health outcomes?
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How does a patient’s motivation towards their health care facilitate health outcomes?
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Air date: September 23, 2012
Host: Barbara Lewis
Interview: Theresa Rohr Kirchgraber, M.D., Director the IU National Center for Excellence in Women's Health, regularly sees patients at Wishard and Riley hospitals.
Primary Care segments are presentedby IU Health Physicians.
In a New York Times column, Pauline Chen, M.D., examines how patient engagement with their health care affects their health. Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, M.D., resident women’s health expert for "Sound Medicine," discusses the increased incidence of patients uninterested in engaging in their health care and issues related to patients' non-compliance with medication regimens. Rohr-Kirchgraber regularly sees patients at Wishard Hospital and is the director of the IU National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health.
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- Access the NY Times column that inspired this segment here.
