Students - and patients - can serve as teachers, too

Article Abstract:

Physicians must be sensitive to their patients' needs, and those who are not may end up hurting them instead of helping them. For example, a terminally ill woman was treated by a physician who refused to be honest with her about her condition. Finally, the physician's assistant, a medical student, quietly let her know how sick she was. The woman was able to prepare herself and her family for her death and was grateful to the medical student for his honesty. Physicians must pay careful attention to their patients in order to understand them and know how best to treat them.

Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Column, Physician and patient, Physician-patient relations, Terminal care

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Through stomach to brain: some food for thought

Article Abstract:

Physicians can successfully employ food analogies to explain healthcare problems to their patients. A doctor's reluctance to take on more Medicare patients, for example, can be compared to receiving only 50 cents for every dollar spent at a grocery store. Other medical topics, such as health care reform, can also be explained in these terms. A discussion of alternative health care systems and a method for comparing them to grocery store economics are presented.

Methods, Medical personnel and patient, Communication in medicine, Medical personnel-patient relations, Medical communication

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