Patient characteristics negatively stereotyped by doctors

Taking Care of the Hateful Patient

James E. Groves · New England Journal of Medicine · 1978 · 733 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +10

Changes in Physicians' Attitudes Toward Telling the Cancer Patient

Dennis H. Novack · JAMA · 1979 · 674 citations

Nursing, Communication, Oncology +12

Passing on: The Social Organization of Dying.

Robert N. Wilson, David Sudnow · American Sociological Review · 1967 · 479 citations

Social Sciences, Social Policy, Sociology +8

Good Patients and Problem Patients: Conformity and Deviance in a General Hospital

Judith Lorber · Journal of Health and Social Behavior · 1975 · 209 citations

Health Professions, Health Behavior, Psychiatry +10

Response of Physicians to Medical Complaints in Men and Women

Karen Armitage · JAMA · 1979 · 140 citations

Medicine, Internal Medicine, Clinical Medicine +10