Journal of general internal medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Caring and dominance affect participants' perceptions and behaviors during a virtual medical visit.
Physician communication style affects patients' perceptions and behaviors. Two aspects of physician communication style, caring and dominance, are often related in that a high caring physician is usually not dominant and vice versa. ⋯ Dominant and caring physicians elicit different emotional and behavioral responses from APs. Physician dominance reduces patient engagement in the medical dialog and produces submissiveness, whereas physician caring increases patient emotionality.