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Philip DeGaetano is a family physician who blogs at FastPass Medicine and can be reached on Twitter @FastPassMedici1.

Net promoter scoring needs to be tweaked for medicine

Philip DeGaetano, MD
Physician
January 6, 2019

Net promoter scoring (NPS) measures customer experience and predicts business growth. Recently it is becoming more common for health networks to adopt NPS. The word “customer” should be a red flag. In medicine, we do not have customers; we have patients.

It is common practice for a patient to receive a text message after they leave an office asking them to rate their experience. It generally looks something like this, “How likely …

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Net promoter scoring needs to be tweaked for medicine

Genuine empathy goes a long way

Philip DeGaetano, MD
Physician
December 17, 2018

Not including residency, I have been caring for patients for five years. But was I really caring about them? We all took the oath to do no harm. We all began our journey into medicine with intentions to make a difference in patient’s lives. But sometimes our intentions erode. We become jaded. We listen to disgruntled counterparts tell us how medicine used to be.

It’s true. We missed the boat. Our …

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Genuine empathy goes a long way

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