never fails....

[litlebanana]

I remember in my intern year, we had a lecture on how we shouldn't interrupt our patients. Bullshit, of course. If I didn't interrupt my patients, I would still be finishing up my morning clinic now, at 9PM

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[pipanuttree]

Yeah that actually really happens :) I had a lecture about that as well so we could acknowledge medical interview techniques, and a bunch of us got taped talking to patients so we could see what we did right and wrong. And they mentioned that same study, to prove that sometimes we lose more time doing a row of objective questions than to let the patient talk for a while, and how that is also good for the patient as talking to the doc is the first part of the cure, etc.

I was actually pretty impressed. But it obviously works better in the general practice where the patient meets you in the cabinet and isn't usually suffering from anything major, rather than daily hospital practice when you're running from one place to another to get things done.

[litlebanana]

Unfortunately, what the patient thinks is important is vastly different from what is actually important, so you can't just let them talk on and on.

[musiclover04]

hahaha, love the post