American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies
Curbside Consults: Risks and Solutions
‘Curbside consults’ are informal conversations in which one clinician solicits medical advice about a patient from another clinician. These informal [...]
Openness Towards Patients
Clinician openness towards patients is a multivalent concept with various meanings. From my work with psychiatry residents and other mental [...]
You Are More Than a Clinician
Before a patient walks into your office, you’re just a random clinician the patient got an appointment with. That patient [...]
Your Underused Clinical Superpower
As clinicians, we meet hundreds or thousands of patients every year. What they all have in common, it is safe [...]
Manipulation or Good Doctoring?
A little while ago I went to a sit-down restaurant for lunch. I had to smile when the 20-something-year-old server [...]
Can Too Much Empathy Be a Bad Thing?
To answer the question in the heading – too much empathy can be bad for the empathizer and the person [...]