Perfect Provider Syndrome and Perfect Patient Syndrome affect patient care because there are less opportunities for real conversaitons.

Kelly Grosklags, LICSW, BCD, FAAGC shares how Perfect Provider Syndrome can occur in providers who want to do everything they can to please their patients.

Kelly Grosklags, LICSW, BCD, FAAGC shares how Perfect Patient Syndrome can occur in patients with cancer who want to impress their providers. Perfect Patient Syndrome can lead to dishonesty and unreported symptoms.

Tonya Edwards, MS, MSN, Family Nurse Practitioner, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Supportive Care Department, explains the current escalation of the opioid crisis in the United States.