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According to Abraham C. Verghese, a Stanford professor of medicine who has authored books that stress the importance of bedside exams, the doctor-patient relationship is like a ritual: “one individual comes to another and bares their soul and their body,” he says...
Treadway adds that many medical students and doctors are so focused on diagnosing and treating the problem that they forget what the experience is like for the patient...
...recalls a time when she asked a group of residents who had just delivered a diagnosis of cancer whether any of them had asked the patient, “How are you doing with this...
When Treadway asked why, the resident said that he was afraid the patient might go “crazy” and he wouldn’t know what...
...only way you can make the patient feel safe is to make it clear you’re available and you care,” says Treadway...