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How to handle verbal abuse from patients while maintaining professionalism

A patient yelled at me for twenty minutes about their insurance copay and I smiled through it but went to the bathroom afterward and cried.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You have to swallow abuse with a smile, and it's slowly wearing you down.

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