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...animals to study a new theory before they try it out in humans. But sometimes they go in the opposite direction, using animals to see whether certain theories apply only to humans. A new paper in Science does exactly that, investigating whether a widely documented human phenomenon - the fact that we tend to prefer people who behave the same way we do in social interactions - exists in other species...
...that's why they're called residents. Patients also resided in the hospital sometimes for weeks at a time. So everybody got a chance to see interesting patients, interesting pathology. That's not the way it is now. We have to figure out ways to make up for the fact that patients buzz through the hospital, mostly staying three days or less, and residents spend less than 80 hours a week in the hospital. Eighty hours a week sounds like a lot, but while the hours have shrunk, the workload hasn't. So residents spend less time with the patients...
...recurring themes in the book is the fact that too few doctors sit down and hear out the patient's story. Why is that? It's hard to listen to a story that's not told well. That's a terrible thing to say, but we all feel this. You know, when we're at the dinner table and Uncle Dave is telling a long, windy story, what you're really thinking is, "Where is this going? What is the bottom line?" That kind of impatience is not just limited to the dinner table; that's often how doctors feel...
...would have Medicare reimburse doctors for counseling patients on end-of-life care every five years. Opponents of health-care reform have latched onto the provision, claiming it would lead to forced euthanasia or "death panels" to decide whether lifesaving care for the elderly is cost-effective - despite the fact that the bill says nothing about either of these frightening issues. In fact, geriatricians - doctors trained specifically to care for the elderly - support the provision, arguing that it will encourage patients to express their own preferences rather than leave doctors and family members to guess what they want once they...
...family members, and I can understand that. If a proxy knows that the patient always said, "This is how I want to live my life, this is how I want my life to end," they feel very much more comfortable in making those decisions. So I think the fact that there is some national conversation about this is good in that it starts people talking to their friends and family about what is important to them...