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The Person Inside The Patient
November 13, 2019 at 9:49 am · Filed under communication, family & friends, healthcare professionals, PatientsAdrienne Barnes, a nurse diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, was featured in “Voices From The Lived World of Illness,” a video produced by the Center for Communication in Medicine. During the interview she shared her frustrations when her doctor tells her “there’s really nothing I can do for you.”
Read more >>Transforming Medical Crisis into Opportunities to Find Meaning in One’s Life
October 16, 2019 at 1:22 pm · Filed under communication, family & friends, Newly Diagnosed, PatientsThe Center for Communication in Medicine, which I am a founder, decided that our next SpeakSooner Community Education Program on October 26 in Bennington would focus on the theme of transforming a medical crisis into an opportunity to find meaning and joy in one’s life. Planning this event brought to mind a woman whom I […]
Read more >>Would You Prefer A Medical Fix or Good Communicator?
September 11, 2019 at 10:25 am · Filed under communication, healthcare professionals, PatientsI recently stumbled upon an old email from a nurse with whom I worked with many years ago at the cancer center in Bennington, VT. At the time she had asked me: “Do patients, really want their doctors/nurses to be human? Or do they want them to do what they were trained to do and […]
Read more >>Who is This Doctor at My Bedside?
August 19, 2019 at 3:09 pm · Filed under communication, healthcare professionals, Newly DiagnosedRecently, a friend went to the emergency room with complaints of severe GI pain and was admitted to the hospital. Naturally, she was worried about the cause of her symptoms, which she had been experiencing on and off for 6 months. Under the care of her family doctor she tried several medications but none seemed […]
Read more >>Prognosis: Talking in Code
June 26, 2019 at 10:29 am · Filed under communication, healthcare professionals, PatientsPrognosis is not a term familiar to most people unless used by a doctor to explain the expected course of a medical condition. Even then, the word or its implications may not be understood.
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