by Marcus Greatheart | Jun 14, 2021 | Blog, Communication Skills for Doctors, Medical Education, Uncategorized |
When I’m working with trainees, many have ideas about starting clinical encounters but few have thought about conclusions. When I was in grad school, a professor spoke with us about how our society doesn’t end things well — we’d rather say “see you...
by Nicolas Mertens | Jun 11, 2021 | Barriers to Health Care, Blog, Communication Skills for Doctors, Equity Work, Medical Education, Uncategorized |
Communicating with transgender patients ISSUES IN PracticE Transgender patients experience significant barriers to accessing health care. As with many marginalized communities, physicians as a profession have contributed to the trauma inflicted on transgender people....
by Nicolas Mertens | Jun 11, 2021 | Barriers to Health Care, Blog, Communication Skills for Doctors, Equity Work, Health of Bears, Medical Education, Uncategorized |
Talking with gay male patients about cardiovascular health What is a Bear? Bears are a sub-group of gay men generally identified by their larger body size, and facial and body hair which connects them to community and with sexual partners. In the medical clinic, they...
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...
