Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Breakfast Chat with Dr. Pat: Talking with Doctors

Dr. Jonas, your host for the Dr. Synonymous Show will discuss strategies that may enable patients to be better heard by their physicians.  Physicians seem to have less and less time to engage patients.  This may be detrimental to quality in healthcare.  How might we get around this?  Dr. Jonas will engage those present about ways to get their story heard.  This will include some information about how doctors think and make decisions. 
We will talk about some common problems and at least one rare disease- Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.  The EDS patients get rejected a lot by physicians before they finally get a diagnosis.  How can we get beyond these rejections in this era of opiate abuse and dependency in which patients with pain struggle to get it treated adequately?  The EDS patients might be the poster children for this quandary between pain and opiates.
Click below to listen to the podcast on Blog Talk Radio.

2 comments:

  1. Hey doc. I'm back and it's really weird this time. I should listen to your podcast...might be useful.

    Nice to see someone still blogging. Seems like everyone has disappeared.

    Blogger won't pull up my profile for some reason. Here's my link...https://pissedoffpatient.blogspot.com/2018/10/adenomas-all-night-long.html

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  2. Thanks for your comment. Your blog, Medical Mojave is a Blog that I always read and used to comment about on my Blog Talk Radio Show. It points out the tensions between patient and physician from the patient side of a rare condition. A good book about thinking limitations in scientific and medical professionals that reaffirms the patient perspective that the physician could reflect a bit deeper on the patient story/ plight is The Limits of Scientific Reasoning by Faust 1984 U of Minnesota. From the preface: "human judgement is far more limited than we have typically believed and that all individuals, scientists included, have a surprisingly restricted capacity to manage or interpret complex information."
    We have to work to process the complex information/situations better. The current Electronic Medical Record seems to have set back decision making considerably for physicians due to excesssive administrivia and less time for patient care and clinical decision making.

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