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In a recent CareerBuilder survey, 36 percent of workers said that they discuss politics at work, and 23 percent of that group said such discussion turned heated or into a fight – the last thing you want patients seeing in your practice.

You’re legally allowed to ban politically charged employee conversation. That may be too restrictive a policy to implement preemptively, but should hot-button talk get out of hand you can nip it in the bud simply by changing your office rules. You’re more limited, however, when it comes to patient discussion. What to do when a patient puts your politics on the spot?

Directness and common sense should guide your dialogue. An interested question asking your opinion on healthcare reform may be worthy of a chat; since it so directly impacts your profession, your thoughts on the ACA are akin to shop talk. But if you sense that a patient is bringing up election talk or other partisan issues in a way that’s argumentative or hostile, cut it off. Tell your patient that aggressive political debates are bad for his health and inappropriate for the healthcare setting.