Language is a powerful internal influencer. You use language to communicate with yourself, just as you do with others. Language is the …
Communication
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Have you ever marveled that a new patient will share with you their most intimate secrets just minutes after you initiate their …
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Symptom invalidation can cause emotional harm, healthcare-related distress, behavioral changes, and diagnostic delays, worsening health outcomes. Clinical encounters with uncertainty are increasing, …
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Your job as health care professionals is not just to diagnose your patients by applying your scientific knowledge and clinical skills, but …
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More and more doctors nowadays, are realizing that they must deal with a very significant problem. Some of their patients are angry, …
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When looking at the way medical education and patient care is delivered, there is no question that there is a culture of …
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Being a physician is an important role. It’s easy to forget the impact that you have on a patient just by being …
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Avoiding human errors in the health care arena is crucial. Efforts to address communication-related or “soft skill” failures have been ongoing since …
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The perfect doctor lives in the moment, focusing on the here and now: This patient, this case, this encounter. They devote their …
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It is well known by now that a physician’s demeanor influences the clinical response patients have to any prescribed treatment. We also …
