Clarence Braddock, MD, MPH, MACP, talks about Encouraging Patients to Participate in Shared Decision Making. He discusses his widely used framework for teaching and evaluating the quality of shared decision-making that saves time and lowers the likelihood of malpractice claims. He is the former Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine and was a founding member of the Academy for Professionalism in Health Care. He is the author of DocCom Module 17 on Shared-Decision Making