What Your Doctor’s Really Thinking (But Won’t Say to Your Face)

Put away your phone!

“I hate when patients text during a visit. It tells me that they do not value my time. I feel disrespected. I have left patients talking on their phone in the examining room and moved on to see another patient.” —David Broyles, DO, a doctor of family medicine who practices in the Philadelphia suburbs. These are 11 other things patients always do.