Have you ever found yourself at a medical appointment trying desperately to explain to your physician what and how you are feeling? Unfortunately, no matter how hard you try, nothing you are saying is coming out right and any utterances you make are not conveying the message you want. Rather than struggling to verbalize your thoughts, why not draw them instead? This idea is explored in Damien Pollard’s article Magic Eyes.
Tag Archives: communication
If Doctors Are Kind to Each Other, Patients Benefit Too
Negative relationships can exist between physicians and their presence can impact patient care. As Dr. Karthikesan explains, “The doctor-patient relationship paradigm depends closely on the doctor-doctor relationship. Bad and damaging cultures foster a hostile atmosphere that erodes trust, tarnishes good communication and promotes disrespect within the medical community. The role doctors play in harming each other ubiquitously affects the patient’s care, however unintentionally. The question becomes, how can the relationship between physicians be improved or as Karthikesan asks, “So what went wrong in the noblest of professions and how do we fix it?”
Click here to read the solutions proposed.
How to Make the Patient the VIP
In a recent article, Thomas R. Frieden notes that public health and clinical medicine should work together but all too often, this is not the case. As a means of addressing this situation, Frieden suggests that the two areas can be integrated effectively by making patients the VIPs of the system. What does it mean to make the patient the VIP? Read the article to find out.
