Laura K Rock: Don’t answer feelings with facts
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Patient: “I’m scared about having this procedure. I’m having second thoughts.” Doctor: “Don’t worry. Your surgeon does four…
Patient: “I’m scared about having this procedure. I’m having second thoughts.” Doctor: “Don’t worry. Your surgeon does four…
The mood in New South Wales State Supreme Court was somber that early June day in 2009. Seven years earlier a little girl of…
It’s hard to watch someone who is suffering. We may feel their pain or absorb their sorrow; we may worry that we won’t know…
Writing in Annals of Family Medicine a few years ago, Chicago obstetrician Benjamin P. Brown vividly described his mentor’s…
A pediatrician husband recently wrote here in KevinMD about the stark differences in assumptions about work-life balance for…
A new article, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, encourages more empathy in healthcare. The authors…
“We experienced an iatrogenic event that produced an untoward sequela, and while it is now quiescent, it may still recrudesce.…
Last month, PLOS One published a study which held significant interest for me; as a long time sufferer from acid reflux (which…
A meta-analysis of studies that investigated measures designed to improve health professionals’ interactions with patients…