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.
Yes, I agree; this is the dance. I find that people often have an imbalance one way or the other. Some are too dependent and need to find that trust in themselves and their healing and take responsibility for it, and some people are very controlling and unable to trust anyone else to help them. I was in the latter category and that's why trusting in the very system I was most afraid of was important for me to do; I had to recognize that I didn't have access to the tools to solve the problem and this was my best bet given the circumstances. But I also have clients who want me to be a magician and to have all the answers, and I'm not and I don't.
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.
I perceive that the future of all medicine, whether "conventional" or "alternative" is going to be shifting to patient-centered private services put together by professionals who refuse to play that game anymore. For MDs and folks in the field, there are so many of you who reject the current situation; health ministries, concierge centers, whatever it is, something has got to give and it's going to take courage, whether it's the courage of people like Paul Gosselin and Meryl Nass to stand down the medical malpractice, or whether it's people in fields like mine who refuse to be cowed by the relentless maligning of, and lying about, our work that happens at the hands of the wielders of information power.
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.
Yes, I agree; this is the dance. I find that people often have an imbalance one way or the other. Some are too dependent and need to find that trust in themselves and their healing and take responsibility for it, and some people are very controlling and unable to trust anyone else to help them. I was in the latter category and that's why trusting in the very system I was most afraid of was important for me to do; I had to recognize that I didn't have access to the tools to solve the problem and this was my best bet given the circumstances. But I also have clients who want me to be a magician and to have all the answers, and I'm not and I don't.
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.
I perceive that the future of all medicine, whether "conventional" or "alternative" is going to be shifting to patient-centered private services put together by professionals who refuse to play that game anymore. For MDs and folks in the field, there are so many of you who reject the current situation; health ministries, concierge centers, whatever it is, something has got to give and it's going to take courage, whether it's the courage of people like Paul Gosselin and Meryl Nass to stand down the medical malpractice, or whether it's people in fields like mine who refuse to be cowed by the relentless maligning of, and lying about, our work that happens at the hands of the wielders of information power.