For a number of reasons, adapting school lessons to real-life medical encounters often fails.

David Lewis commented that during the last five years, patients have been bringing a great deal of information to medical encounters.

Well into the 19th century, the medical encounter consisted mostly of a discussion of a patient's symptoms followed by the doctor's "laying on of hands."

I've been trying to define the medical encounter and its relationship to healing for the past 15 years or so.

The medical encounter is then documented in the medical record, which is a legal document in many jurisdictions.

The study, in the journal Pediatrics, was based on a review of 13 medical encounters that had been recorded for another purpose.

Patients are inherently vulnerable within medical encounters and must be trustful of the multiple institutional entities and individuals involved in their care.

The center provides care to over 10,000 patients in nearly 40,000 medical and dental encounters per year.

There's an incentive for more medical encounters.

For most Americans, an ordinary medical encounter.