http://next-element.com/blog/three-tips-for-being-a-healthier-doctor/ Leadership through Process Communication Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:28:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://next-element.com/blog/three-tips-for-being-a-healthier-doctor/#comment-109 Jerrie Rankin Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:50:53 +0000 http://next-element.com/?p=2887#comment-109 Nate - I found your observations spot on. The Doctors I work with that invest in relationships have much better outcomes. With that being said, for some it takes real effort. They spend so much time in school, training, etc...while the rest of us are out developing ourselves socially, they are studying and working. It doesn't come natural to many and therefore I'm not sure they understand the need for it. The challenge for us that work with Physicians in distress is helping them find their way through fear and loss - it's hard to admit for many. I have found it takes us modeling the relationship piece and investing our time in them. Sometimes there is success, sometimes there isn't - but either way, I've learned a lot along the way. Thanks for sharing...jerrie Nate – I found your observations spot on. The Doctors I work with that invest in relationships have much better outcomes. With that being said, for some it takes real effort. They spend so much time in school, training, etc…while the rest of us are out developing ourselves socially, they are studying and working. It doesn’t come natural to many and therefore I’m not sure they understand the need for it. The challenge for us that work with Physicians in distress is helping them find their way through fear and loss – it’s hard to admit for many. I have found it takes us modeling the relationship piece and investing our time in them. Sometimes there is success, sometimes there isn’t – but either way, I’ve learned a lot along the way. Thanks for sharing…jerrie

]]> http://next-element.com/blog/three-tips-for-being-a-healthier-doctor/#comment-108 Kim Talbot Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:01:28 +0000 http://next-element.com/?p=2887#comment-108 Nate: Great observations! I think that one of the main reasons these destructive behaviors persist is that perception the doctors have that their patients expect perfection and omniscience. As a nurse I take my role as patient advocate VERY seriously. So often the patients won't give the doctors the information and insight the doctors need to properly assess and diagnose. Often times the doctors give the impression that these details are not valuable either so why would a patient offer it up? So a vicious cycle persists. Doctors can be wrong. Doctors can be vulnerable to human limitations like the need to sleep, cry, be frustrated, be stumped, and to stop and smell the roses. Maybe as patients we need to let them, and not be so dependent on the impossibility that they can read our minds and physiology so well that we don't need to partner with them in our care. Maybe we need to bring the nurses back into the clinics so we can facilitate this relationship. (you can see that I have a "nurse agenda" :). thanks, Nate! kt Nate: Great observations! I think that one of the main reasons these destructive behaviors persist is that perception the doctors have that their patients expect perfection and omniscience. As a nurse I take my role as patient advocate VERY seriously. So often the patients won’t give the doctors the information and insight the doctors need to properly assess and diagnose. Often times the doctors give the impression that these details are not valuable either so why would a patient offer it up? So a vicious cycle persists. Doctors can be wrong. Doctors can be vulnerable to human limitations like the need to sleep, cry, be frustrated, be stumped, and to stop and smell the roses. Maybe as patients we need to let them, and not be so dependent on the impossibility that they can read our minds and physiology so well that we don’t need to partner with them in our care. Maybe we need to bring the nurses back into the clinics so we can facilitate this relationship. (you can see that I have a “nurse agenda” . thanks, Nate! kt

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