< i >
The Trouble with Physicians
In one study, physicians did not allow patients to complete their opening statements 69% of the time. The mean time until the first interruption was 18 seconds. Once interrupted, fewer than 2% of patients went on to complete their statements.
"Data are thus very much physician-determined, skewed toward problems that are biomedical in nature... It has been proposed that current interviewing practices are at odds with scientific requirements: They produce biased, incomplete data about the patient."