Reblog ... Diary of a Benefit Scrounger: How do you really practice patient centered care?

"If a human has been broken by the incredible challenges of living with a long term serious illness, it's easy to judge. To believe we would have been stronger, coped better. It's easy to separate patients into deserving and underserving based on their responses to what we sometimes forget can be extreme suffering. It's easy to judge their lives as we judge our own, forgetting the million tiny challenges the patient faces every day that we don't ever need to even consider. We might treat the pain, or clean the wound or prescribe the treatments, but we may never know how hard it is just to make a cup of tea or hold your own children when they cry."


Diary of a Benefit Scrounger: How do you really practice patient centered care?: One of the great disconnects between doctor and patient is the difference between "learning" and "knowing". A competen...