Dr. Ronald M Epstein M.D.
Hospice and Palliative Care Specialist | Hospice and Palliative Medicine
777 Clinton Ave S Rochester NY, 14620About
Dr. Ronald Epstein is a hospice and palliative care specialist practicing in Rochester, NY. Dr. Epstein provides care to people who are seriously ill. As a hospice and palliative care specialist, Dr. Epstein works to relieve the pain and suffering of people who have a severe medical condition and are in a critical state. Hospice and palliative care specialists try to improve the quality of life for a person who may not have much time left to live.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1984
Harvard Medical School 1984
Board Certification
Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family MedicineABFM- Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Defining and assessing professional competence.
- The costs of making practice more cost-effective.
- Is communication a skill? Communication behaviors and being in relation.
- Hearing voices: patient-centered care with diverse populations.
- Virtual physicians, health systems, and the healing relationship.
- Preventing errors in clinical practice: a call for self-awareness.
- The biopsychosocial model 25 years later: principles, practice, and scientific inquiry.
- Patient trust: is it related to patient-centered behavior of primary care physicians?
- Assessing communication competence: a review of current tools.
- Are patients' ratings of their physicians related to health outcomes?
- Peer assessment of professional competence.
- Studying physician effects on patient outcomes: physician interactional style and performance on quality of care indicators.
- Influence of accompanied encounters on patient-centeredness with older patients.
- Rochester Participatory Decision-Making Scale (RPAD): reliability and validity.
- Making communication research matter: what do patients notice, what do patients want, and what do patients need?
Treatments
- Pain
- Vascular Disease
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