{"id":808,"date":"2015-04-07T00:39:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T09:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=808"},"modified":"2015-04-07T00:39:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T09:39:57","slug":"apr-7-grateful-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=808","title":{"rendered":"Apr 7 – Grateful Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I visit a lot of patients who have experienced surgeries that had a desirable outcome.\u00a0 Even though when I see them they still pain from the incision area they express genuine gratitude for the surgeon and others who take care of them.\u00a0 The picture above which was not taken at our hospital illustrates this dynamic.<\/p>\n

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Grateful patients I often think are unaware of the gift they give to the members of their treatment team.\u00a0 Everyone likes to be appreciated.\u00a0 That is true regardless of your occupation.\u00a0 Healthcare becomes a more demanding environment to work in each year.\u00a0 So in a more demanding environment when a patient shows genuine gratitude it gifts a sense of reaffirmation to those who feel called to their role in healthcare.<\/p>\n

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One way patients can shape the atmosphere in healthcare is to show gratitude when it is deserved.\u00a0 It inspires the providers to continue to give excellent service and at times encourages them to go to a higher effort to produce comfort for their patients.\u00a0 When I see a staff member come out of a room smiling, they take that smile into the next patient\u2019s room.\u00a0 Gratitude is powerful when shared and not nearly as difficult to share as the benefits it produces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I visit a lot of patients who have experienced surgeries that had a desirable outcome.\u00a0 Even though when I see them they still pain from the incision area they express genuine gratitude for the surgeon and others who take care of them.\u00a0 The picture above which was not taken at our hospital illustrates this … Continue reading Apr 7 – Grateful Patients<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","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=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}