On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.
Jerome Groopman (2008). “How Doctors Think”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.