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 Issues in Practice Bear-identified patients are mostly invisible subgroup of obese and hirsute MSM notable for their increased risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. These men have likely heard plenty...
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...
