{"id":433,"date":"2014-09-24T23:23:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T08:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=433"},"modified":"2014-09-25T04:41:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T13:41:27","slug":"sept-24-excellent-talent-at-explaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"Sept 24 – Excellent Talent at Explaining"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Physicians have a difficult task when they have to explain the medical status of patient in critical condition.\u00a0 The family generally wants to know what is wrong and how long it will take for the patient to get better.\u00a0 These are logical questions, and most of us can see how the answers to them can bring comfort to the family members of the patient.\u00a0 Not all medical situations present themselves with immediate answers.\u00a0 At times deciding what is wrong is a process of ruling out one possibility after another.\u00a0 With testing, waiting for results and consultations this is not always a quick process.\u00a0 I with a physician recently who was trying to explain what was happening to very distraught family members.\u00a0 I was impressed at by the calmness in her tone of voice.\u00a0 She was consistent in her answers, even when the family essentially tried to ask the same question in many different ways.<\/p>\n

The family eventually was able to calm down partly due to the calmness projected by the physician.\u00a0 I tried to help the family by reminding them of what the physician said when they were remembering what had been said incorrectly.\u00a0 As the family received signs of expression and support from those who sent them text messages or called them, they began to calm down.\u00a0 Providing companionship and a non-anxious presence is exactly what some family\u2019s need as they wait for their medical questions to be answered.\u00a0 This is truly a team process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Physicians have a difficult task when they have to explain the medical status of patient in critical condition.\u00a0 The family generally wants to know what is wrong and how long it will take for the patient to get better.\u00a0 These are logical questions, and most of us can see how the answers to them … Continue reading Sept 24 – Excellent Talent at Explaining<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}