SAVE THE DATE! The SWVA Graduate Medical Education Consortium's 20th Annual Head for the Hills CME Conference at Breaks Interstate Park is on October 17th-19th. About 75 regional primary care providers attend, in addition to residents and nurse practitioners. To look at the updated schedule and our panel of speakers, click Head for the Hills… Continue reading Updated Schedule: Head for the Hills 2019
Month: July 2019
Kaiser Health News: Never Say ‘Die’: Why So Many Doctors Won’t Break Bad News
A 2016 Study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, found that "only 5% of cancer patients accurately understood their prognoses well enough to make informed decisions about their care." Take a look at how an internist received the delivery of his pancreatic cancer diagnosis, and why his reflections have led him to advocate for… Continue reading Kaiser Health News: Never Say ‘Die’: Why So Many Doctors Won’t Break Bad News
The Health Care Blog: The Patient Explanatory Model
"The vast majority of patients are not from the culture of biomedicine… Routine clinical encounters are often the times when they are being asked to make major lifestyle changes.” Namratha Kandula, MD delves into Arthur Kleinman’s ‘Patient Explanatory Model’ in this older, but relevant article for all healthcare professionals. Kleinman's 'Eight Questions' will get the… Continue reading The Health Care Blog: The Patient Explanatory Model
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