Dr. Richard Besser offers advice for receiving the best medical care. For more, click here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Richard_Besser/patients-bill-rights-empowered-doctor-visit/story?id=14073875

Medical Economics sits down with James Underberg, MD, to discuss how the physician-patient relationship has changed, and what physicians should do to strengthen their ties with their patients.

At the heart of our health care system is the doctor-patient relationship. It is that trusting relationship that drives quality care. When the federal government, however, decides to exert an ever greater level of influence over the practice of medicine – as we have seen under Obamacare – then the doctor-patient relationship is threatened and the quality of care is potentially compromised.

The ubiquitous computer has become an essential entity in almost every provider-patient visit. “Computers,” patient safety expert Dr. Bob Wachter says, “are changing the doctor-patient relationship in all sorts of ways. Some of them are really healthy; some of them are quite scary.” In this short video, Dr. Wachter discusses the pros and cons that the digital age has brought into intimate patient-provider relationships. Copyright © 2015 Institute for Healthcare ImprovementAll rights reserved. Individuals may share these materials for educational, not-for-profit uses, provided that the contents are not altered in any way and that proper attribution is given to IHI as the source of the content. These materials may not be reproduced for commercial, for-profit use in any form or by any means, or republished under any circumstances, without the written permission of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

Join host Jamie Caniglia as she asks folks on their lunch hour in Philadelphia - Do you feel like your concerns and requests are respected and accepted by your doctors when you go to see them?

Host Alexia Doumbouya sits down with Lawrence Brilliant, M.D., President of St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, to learn about the role of a hospital president and to discuss the importance of patient rights in running a hospital.