Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

We often distance ourselves from emotions to stay focused in emergencies or maintain professionalism with patients or in power differential situations in training. She said something along the lines of - 'Look therapsist and physicians all get Lesson 1 - You have to emotionally regulate in the moments of stressful patient situations.

IT 130

IT Patient-Centered Physicals Medical Student 130

Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 17, 2021

Not sure if it will help anyone, and I made sure to retract program names, so just posting on the blog for my memories. I am 11 hours into my shift and between physical and telemedicine visits, I have seen a total of 46 patients today AND finished all my notes! Right now, I am at work and just got a break. It all adds up.

Medical Student 52

Medical Student IT Telemedicine Medical 52

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

(Published 3/18/19, updated 6/20/25) What Is Physician “Burnout”—and Why It Matters Physician “burnout” is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress in the medical workplace. So why are physicians experiencing physical and mental collapse from overwork?

Medical Student 246

Medical Student Diagnosis Physicals Medical 246

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. Because that really is what this is about.

Patient-Centered 115

Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Along the way we address: Is this degree of slowed cognitive decline meaningful to patients or care partners? Eric: So patient narrative storytelling, independent of what we call it, I’d like to turn to both of you and just how you got interested in this as a subject. She was a heart failure patient.

IT 105

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. In one room the physician under study interacts with a white patient-actor, and in another room interacts with a Black patient-actor.

Patient-Centered 111

Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Have you ever had that moment when talking to a patient, when you realized that the phrase you just uttered, which you’ve uttered a hundred times before, came out rote and scripted? And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Summary Transcript Summary. Yeah, I’ve been there too.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101