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Helping Patients Practice Healthy Habits
WEBClinicians can suggest patients start with a small habit like listening to a favorite workout playlist to support a new exercise routine. Healthcare professionals can also recommend that patients set exercise clothes out the night before. Make the new habit easy and manageable by starting with a 10-minute commitment to exercise.
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How to talk with patients about sexual health
WEBSome basic principles for successful discussions about sexual health with high school students as well as people of all ages include: 1. Humility and honesty. By acknowledging our own limitations and willingness to learn, we can work toward creating a trusting relationship with our patients. 2.
What's one life lesson you learned from a patient
WEBRecognizing that I am not just working with one patient – that the immediate members of a patient’s household/world are often very much part of the process of the patient’s illness: e.g. playing a role in the inception or response to the illness or living the experience bearing the suffering brought on by the patient’s illness.
How do you talk with patients about hunger and access to food
WEBScott Wright, MD, Johns Hopkins Medicine. I’m especially cognizant to ask about access to food among patients who are thin, have lost significant weight, and smokers. I inquire about their appetite and specifically what they eat in a typical day. Particularly for those who don’t drive and who don’t do much meal preparation, I ask for
Engendering Trust in the Care Team
WEBNo single clinician can be available every time a patient is in need. While this sounds obvious, the breadth of responsibility it involves may be less so. We are all accustomed to giving a “sign-out” or summary of unresolved patient issues to a covering clinician; this is ingrained in the culture of medical training and practice. Mr.
The Circle of Whole Health
WEBIn the center of this circle is “me,” which means that the Circle of Health applies to all human beings, not just patients, or those with a specific diagnosis – it is relevant to all people, physicians, nurses, clinicians, staff, patients, and family. It is a health promotion tool, rather than a treatment intervention for a specific disease.
5 open-ended questions to learn more about your patient
WEBA high quality relationship between clinicians and patients may improve health outcomes due to more open and honest communication between patients and doctors. One component of developing and strengthening a close connection is a thoughtful relationship-centered interview. Purposeful questions imbued with curiosity and …
Treating Every Patient How I Would Want To Be Treated
WEBA pediatric emergency department physician shares his inspiring clinical mission and values statement. My approach to patient care is to treat every patient in a way that I would want to be treated. At first glance this seems simple, but it involves several important tenets. First, it’s essential to understand the context of patient presentation.
General Internal Medicine: An Opportunity to Engage Holistically
WEBGIM is a specialty that prepares practitioners with the knowledge and skills to confidently promote the well-being and manage the health of all adult patients – from patients with no known comorbidities to patients with significant medical complexity. GIM training provides the opportunity to serve as a primary physician in both the outpatient
Identity: Knowing How Our Patients Describe Themselves Matters
WEBThis complexity of identity is what makes “getting to know your patient” important, and allows for deeper cultural engagement, exchange, understanding, and, ultimately, helps us to create a culturally competent health plan with our patients. The category “other” has seen a reemergence at our hospital, with epidemiology meetings
Navigating Power Relations in Healthcare
WEBThis summer, I chose Adrienne Rich’s poem “Power” for one of our spring term’s final Narrative Medicine workshops attended by a group of interprofessional healthcare students. I chose the poem hoping it could help the students reflect on their complex relationships to power in their work as they approached summer break. In …
How Maintaining Fitness Can Enhance Your Clinical Practice
WEBMaintaining your fitness may prevent burnout, and can be viewed as a gift to yourself, your patients, and your clinical practice. The Why. In an opinion piece published in World Neurosurgery, Kyle M. Fargen, MD, and colleagues argue that a lack of exercise and poor dietary choices may have negative consequences on a physician’s physical and
Top 10 Tips for Talking With Your Patients About Food
WEBI have a passion for health and wellness, and specialize in preventative medicine, with a focus on the reversal of diabetes and obesity. 50% of American 65-year-olds have abnormal blood sugar levels; prevention is critical. Making the switch from processed to real food takes planning and support. After many years supporting patients …
Medical Activism: A Foundation of Professionalism
WEBBecoming a medical activist. Dr. Samuel Shem wrote of the “doctor’s disease,” and how to resist the “inhumanities of medicine:”. 1. “Learn our trade, in the world,” and be aware that “Medicine is part of life, not vice versa.”. 2. “Beware of isolation. Isolation is deadly; connection heals.”. 3.
Understanding the Sacrifices we Make in Medicine
WEBViewing these sacrifices as part of the project of the purpose of medicine—the health of patients—allows clinicians to understand, even accept, these sacrifices. When clinicians look to their profession for stability, relatively high salaries, or social esteem, these sacrifices feel like things to resent or dread that can lead to burnout.
"The Danger of a Single Story"
WEBTakeaway. A single narrative creates biases, reinforces stereotypes, and can prevent us from seeing the full potential in ourselves and others. Appreciating multiple stories can deepen and broaden our perspectives. There’s a saying that most clinicians-in-training hear at least once, if not hundreds of times, “patients don’t read the
Tips For Giving Medical Updates to Families
WEBHere are 8 tips I’ve learned from being both a physician giving updates and a family member receiving updates: 1. Give frequent and scheduled updates. Daily updates, ideally at scheduled times, help to maintain normalcy and set expectations for patients and families. Even if there haven’t been any acute changes in care or treatment, they
Top Five Tips For Successful Community Engagement
WEBApproaching your patient’s community is no different than approaching the patient with the disease. Know who the community is, know what their concerns and goals are, and know what can be done realistically to achieve the health status the community wants. In order to gain the trust of your patient’s community, agree on health …
Lessons From 1865: What Clinicians Can Learn From Juneteenth
WEBAs clinicians, there are at least six important lessons we can learn from Juneteenth that will help us give the highest quality care for all our patients through critical reflective practice and transformative action. 1. Unlearn history. Most of us weren’t taught about the lasting impact of settler colonialism, slavery, and white supremacy on
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