As a physician, I enjoyed reading about your experience. It is difficult to ask patients to shoulder the responsibility for their healing beyond what I am qualified to advise, but this part of healing is so elusive to most. Consequently, I tend to be very frank and descriptive about outcomes, hoping to elicit their help with healing and mindset. It is truly a team effort, and while trust is needed, dependence too frequently results.
That’s what is the worst about the last 2-3 years. The system is built to encourage set behaviors with patients and doctors alike. More than once I asked if I was only here to enact a policy, why don’t they just employ a smart HS or college grad who no doubt could follow the policies better and with less expense? Many physicians I worked with would then tailor their care to good Press-Gainey scores (essentially survey results) with no realization that patients, and physicians to a limited extent, must weather a storm of discomfort to arrive at an appropriate goal.
As a physician, I enjoyed reading about your experience. It is difficult to ask patients to shoulder the responsibility for their healing beyond what I am qualified to advise, but this part of healing is so elusive to most. Consequently, I tend to be very frank and descriptive about outcomes, hoping to elicit their help with healing and mindset. It is truly a team effort, and while trust is needed, dependence too frequently results.
That’s what is the worst about the last 2-3 years. The system is built to encourage set behaviors with patients and doctors alike. More than once I asked if I was only here to enact a policy, why don’t they just employ a smart HS or college grad who no doubt could follow the policies better and with less expense? Many physicians I worked with would then tailor their care to good Press-Gainey scores (essentially survey results) with no realization that patients, and physicians to a limited extent, must weather a storm of discomfort to arrive at an appropriate goal.