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GREAT BEDSIDE MANNER DOES NOT NECCESSARILY MEAN SKILLFUL DOCTOR
It came down to a simple choice: the most skilled doctor or the kindest doctor. Continue reading
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Tagged bedside manner, best doctor, choosing a doctor, kind doctor
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HOW DOCTORS DELIVER BAD NEWS TO PATIENTS
the ways in which a doctor’s sometimes unconscious decisions about how to present information impacts his patient Continue reading
HOW LONG DO I HAVE, DOCTOR?
When therapy is available, physicians will blithely ignore prognosis. Continue reading
Shedding Light On the Cancer Journey: the book
My dear and faithful readers: As of today, over 71,000 people have read and hopefully benefited from this blog– beyond my wildest expectation when I started this project 10 years ago. Such strong support has led me to turn Shedding … Continue reading
Posted in cancer staging, cancer treatments, caregiver to cancer patient, chemo toxicity, coping, doctor patient communication, doctor patient relationship, end of life, hospice, hospitalization, medication issues, patient advocate, side effects of cancer, side effects of cancer treatments, Uncategorized
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PALLIATIVE CARE AND HOSPICE– SIMILAR BUT NOT EQUAL
If your palliative care team is not both skillful and fearless in dealing with spiritual and emotional pain, then pain control will not be optimal and peace of mind always elusive. Continue reading
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE AND WHY ARE THEY ALL IN MY ROOM?–TEACHING HOSPITAL HIERARCHY
This nuts-and-bolts explanation clarifies some of the crucial aspects of how “The System” works that we could never figure out on our own. Continue reading
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Tagged hospital chaos, hospital hierarchy, tape recording what doctors say, teaching hospital
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MEDICAL MISCOMMUNICATION CAUSES NEEDLESS PATIENT SUFFERING
The medical professionals we were counting on the co-ordinate John’s care sometimes seemed to be not communicating at all. Continue reading
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Tagged compazine, medical mis-communication, patient suffering
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PATIENT GRATITUDE INSPIRES BETTER MEDICAL CARE
These stories seem to me to illustrate that the effects of gratitude flow in more than one direction. Continue reading
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Tagged better medical care, gratitude heals, patient gratitude, remembering the names of nurses, tell the doctor thank you
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Compassion 101: lessons for a young doctor
John’s doctor was acting as though I didn’t exist. He was willfully, deliberately excluding me. Continue reading
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Tagged arrogant surgeon, compassionate doctor, power of compassion
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