I want to thank Dr. Jonas Attilus for inviting me as his guest on the most recent episode of “Social Medicine on Air,” out this week. I’m so glad to introduce you to this series! You may remember Dr. Attilus from his interivew about power, humility and trust in physician/patient communication. Dr. Attilus blew me […]
Clinical Communication
Read this when you need encouragement on the road to health equity
It’s Health Communication Partners’ 4th anniversary! You know by now that reflective practice is core to what we do around here. Today, I’m reflecting. I promised this year that health equity would be ‘front and center‘ for HCP. I wanted to see how we were doing so far. I admit, I also needed some cheering […]
Episode 102 How our pets can help us talk about death
During the pandemic, many of us turned to our pets for stress-relief and companionship. Though the worst hopefully is behind us, hundreds of thousands of people have died–and probably some you know. There is still a great deal of grieving to do. Turns out this, too, can be a chance for our pets to come […]
Episode 101 Dr. Paul Ranelli talks about the patient as an expert
I’m glad to welcome back to the show Pharmacist and Social Pharmacy Professor Dr. Paul Ranelli. You’ll learn how he encourages his students to see patients as experts, what you can do to improve your next conversation with a pharmacist, and why a deficit perspective on patients is balderdash! Listen here and read the transcript below. […]
Celebrating 100 Podcast episodes! Here’s how to get the most out of every minute
A huge thank you to you! We’ve just released the 100th episode of “10 Minutes to Better Patient Communication,” and we couldn’t have done it without you! Now we’ll show you how to get the most out of the series. You’ll learn how to squeeze all you can out of each jam-packed 10-minute episode. This series is self-funded. You’ll […]
Episode #98 Dr. Lachelle Dawn Weeks discusses wholeness and physician communication
Dr. Lachelle Dawn Weeks, a Fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, talks about the concept of wholeness: about clinicians showing up whole, seeing a patient as a whole person, and how wholeness makes for better patient communication. Listen here and read the transcript below. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT In today’s episode, I interview Dr. Lachelle Dawn Weeks, a Fellow […]