by Nicolas Mertens | Jun 11, 2021 | Barriers to Health Care, Blog, Equity Work, Medical Education, Transgender Health, Uncategorized |
For healthcare providers of all specialties Not just family doctors. Nurses and nurse practitioners as well. The Primary Care Toolkit from Trans Care BC provides contagious guidelines for the care of our transgender patients. Updated in December 2020, this resource...
by Marcus Greatheart | Jun 7, 2021 | Blog, Communication Skills for Doctors, Medical Education, Uncategorized |
We know that doctors of different types and stripes have different appointment lengths, and if you’re working on an inpatient service you may not have a specific schedule. Regardless of whether you have eight, fifteen or thirty minutes (like I do in my clinic...
by Marcus Greatheart | May 31, 2021 | Blog, Communication Skills for Doctors, Medical Education, Uncategorized |
The laundry list A common gripe from doctors is the patient who arrives with a never-ending list of issues. “These patients have unrealistic expectations,” they complain. “We can’t possibly address them all in the short time we have.” We might think that...
by Marcus Greatheart | May 28, 2021 | Blog, Communication Skills for Doctors, Medical Education |
Ask ‘What else?’ As doctors, there are few things more frustrating than attending a department or other meeting without a clear agenda, so it makes sense that we and our patients have the same expectation of why we are meeting and why we’re gathering and what we’re...
by Nicolas Mertens | May 22, 2021 | Barriers to Health Care, Blog, Communication Skills for Doctors, Uncategorized |
A worsening doctor-patient communication problem Back in Medical school, we learned that doctors are quick to interrupt patients at the very start of the clinical encounter — my colleagues and I all committed to doing better. Interestingly, that study from the 1980s...
by Marcus Greatheart | May 7, 2021 | Blog, Uncategorized |
Rest in Power, Mary Lou! Mary Lou smiled wide as she spoke to me. Sure, she would help teach a safe sex workshop to the Friday night LGBTQ+ youth group, but first I’d have to come by the clinic myself for a check up. That way I could talk from experience, she...
