“I’ll put my cell phone away when you put your computer away,” said the patient.
These were the very words I heard upon opening the door and stepping into the exam room. As I stood waiting for him to look up, I was already looking at my computer for his name. Needless to say, I was aghast that a patient would say this to me. My first instinct was to defend …
In a recent episode of the television series, The Good Doctor, a patient played as Robbie Ato does not tell his doctors he has a history of cancer. You can see his surgeons stare in disbelief as one consulting surgeon recognizes the patient’s name and then alerts the team leader that she treated him three years ago for cancer.
This is one of the very most troubling and dangerous acts of …
“Doctors are not the problem. Patients are.”
Anyone who has ever thought the above statement is true has not tapped into the vast well of knowledge and intellect found in their own patients. Training patients to be better patients brings the joy of medicine back into your practice.
All of us, at one time or another, sat in a classroom. The teacher spent the first day going over the rules of the …
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