This is part 2 of Consult Skills. Check out part 1 here if you haven’t yet. Part 1 was all about trying to be better at our day-to-day consults – and it was pretty ‘touchy feely’. This post is not so nice, this is about dealing with the dark side of medicine. Think of the [...]
Consult Skills 1: The “normal” strategy: Understand the patient’s point-of-view and prosper
Pretend you are not a doctor for a minute. Imagine this: you wake up tomorrow with some abdo pain. Its not too bad, but gets worse as the day goes on, it is a bit worrying, you can’t eat lunch and you feel a bit sick. You decide to knock off from work and go [...]
