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It's the power of
patient
networks.
This is Kelly Young, a rheumatoid arthritis
patient
from Florida.
And he explained that they have done this procedure on two patients already, and they need the third
patient
for a paper they were writing.
However cancer is constrained by living inside our bodies, and its continued growth, its spreading through our bodies and eating away at our tissues, leads to the death of the cancer
patient
and also to the death of the cancer itself.
The next morning I walked in to check on my
patient.
In June 2016, exactly 23 months after my first Ebola
patient
died, Liberia declared its Ebola outbreak ended.
We counted survival rate as a success: the end of suffering for the
patient
and fulfilling joy for families.
No bed available for one more
patient.
But I'd like to make the case to you in the next 17 minutes that when we shortcut the physical exam, when we lean towards ordering tests instead of talking to and examining the patient, we not only overlook simple diagnoses that can be diagnosed at a treatable, early stage, but we're losing much more than that.
And when Bell actually strips the patient, begins to examine the patient, you can only imagine how much more he would discern.
Would he have substituted a computer screen for where he had the
patient?
I've gotten into some trouble in Silicon Valley for saying that the
patient
in the bed has almost become an icon for the real
patient
who's in the computer.
The real
patient
often wonders, where is everyone?
There's a real disjunction between the
patient'
s perception and our own perceptions as physicians of the best medical care.
The focus was around the
patient.
Too often these days, rounds look very much like this, where the discussion is taking place in a room far away from the
patient.
And the one critical piece missing is that of the
patient.
And I learned very early on with my first
patient
that I could not do justice to this very complicated
patient
with all the records they were bringing in a new
patient
visit of 45 minutes.
And so I hit on this method where I invited the
patient
to tell me the story for their entire first visit, and I tried not to interrupt them.
We know the average American physician interrupts their
patient
in 14 seconds.
And if I ever get to heaven, it will be because I held my piece for 45 minutes and did not interrupt my
patient.
I then scheduled the physical exam for two weeks hence, and when the
patient
came for the physical, I was able to do a thorough physical, because I had nothing else to do.
And I remember my very first
patient
in that series continued to tell me more history during what was meant to be the physical exam visit.
And when my ritual began, this very voluble
patient
began to quiet down.
And I remember having a very eerie sense that the
patient
and I had slipped back into a primitive ritual in which I had a role and the
patient
had a role.
And when I was done, the
patient
said to me with some awe, "I have never been examined like this before."
I then proceeded to tell the patient, once the
patient
was dressed, the standard things that the person must have heard in other institutions, which is, "This is not in your head.
And I would lay out all the standard treatment options that the
patient
had heard elsewhere.
And I always felt that if my
patient
gave up the quest for the magic doctor, the magic treatment and began with me on a course towards wellness, it was because I had earned the right to tell them these things by virtue of the examination.
And if you shortchange that ritual by not undressing the patient, by listening with your stethoscope on top of the nightgown, by not doing a complete exam, you have bypassed on the opportunity to seal the patient-physician relationship.
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