Doctor Fortin And Schlair Case Study

In the video for this week, Doctors Fortin and Schlair present patient-centered interviewing techniques. In the patient-centered interview, the patient leads the exchange. The patient creates ideas and controls the direction of the conversation and the physician follows the patient. The patient's comfort, concerns and desire for information are the physician's primary considerations during the patient-centered interview.

A key point that the first doctor made was when he said that we interrupt our patients prematurely, about an average of 21 seconds into a visit. He goes on to say that when we do that, we ignore personal information because it never comes up and that leaves the patient feeling unheard and ignored. If ignore the patient’s personal information we don’t get to the emotions that the patient has and we don’t use empathy which leads the patient to a conclusion of not being understood and feeling like the doctor does not care about them. This is important to me because we always want the patient to feel wanted, cared about, and important to us. When we interrupt the patient, we fail to really understand the patients’ full
It is often the person context of a symptom that makes a patient seek out healthcare. He gives an example of where a patient might have a medium amount of back pain but because that patient works on a loading dock, it is preventing them from doing their job. So it’s not so much the back pain but how that back pain is affecting his life that make the patient seek healthcare. Sometimes it could be the symptom or its personal context that creates an emotion such as worry that makes a patient seek out healthcare. I think is it important for the doctor to gather information about the patient so they can figure why the patient is seeking their help. Allowing the patient to tell their story is diagnostically