Category: Relationship with your Doctor

Sharing a Personal Experience

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“Empathy. The capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other being’s frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another’s position.” – Wikipedia In my 25 years as a healthcare professional, I’ve encountered many older adult patients, clients, friends and family who have been diagnosed with shingles.… Read on…

How to Improve the Relationship With Your Physician

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In speaking to my newest client – the mother of a seven-year-old girl – she described the struggle she was having when talking with one of her daughter’s physician specialists. In short, he kept interrupting her and she found it frustrating. She went on to explain how different these interactions were from her encounters with… Read on…