I had the worst kind of patient consult the other night that I have been trying to wrap my head around. When the provider obtains a history on a patient, it seems like we ask you everything but your hat size. Many patients feel like they've answered these questions 100 times, and you may have …
Category: Healthcare workers
How do you solve a problem?…
I love that movie, only I am not really like Maria, although I do remember early 1900’s London. The coal, the pollution, the waste is running through the streets…Ahh, the good ole days. I’ve reached that subtle point where it can’t be others; it has to be me. I know that when you read …
Empathy?…
Always, even before I am faced with something on a personal level. I have been out of the net for a few days, well weeks to overcome a broken foot. It was a doozy. I fell changing pitches on the roof and created what is known as a Jones fracture. Well has a crazy treatment. …
Sometimes you are where you are…
“In a world full of assholes, you don’t have to compete,” I was told by my First Sergeant when I took over a tank section. “You need to meet people where they are and address your response in that place and that moment.” We oft think of sergeants and senior sergeants (a First Sergeant …