When deciding which video to watch to do my essay over, I desired to write about a topic I could relate to or would provide the best advice in the long run. Out of the three videos by Alexander Street Counseling, I decided to write about " Breaking Bad News", which consisted of a situation in which a doctor had to conversate with a spouse about their partner's health and wellness. The film was very fitting considering I want to become a surgeon in the future. While watching this video I gained insight on how to apply communication techniques to break the bad news to future patients. The film was very informative in how to disclose bad news, the video portrayed lots of techniques doctors exercise and examples of how these techniques are practiced. Not to mention that the film starts out by playing out …show more content…
During my reading of Chapter 6 for my choice point, I had discovered that the video covers a very well followed interpersonal process. Throughout the video we see the doctor implement the interpersonal process to disclose bad news in a structure that allows the doctor to be flexible with his speech. The Doctor portrays and effective way Doctors should reveal bad news to families and friends of patients. To enumerate, we begin by viewing the doctor confronting the spouse while introducing himself using verbal and non-verbal cues to comfort the already anxious spouse. He uses his hands and greeting to catch her attention, the doctor then begins by informing the spouse about the surgery he performed on her husband the day before. This is part of the opening and feet forward stages of the Interpersonal Process in where the Doctor has introduced himself to make the spouse feel comfortable and brought up the subject of the husband's surgery before taking her to a more private room to disclose the unfortunate
In her personal essay, Dr. Grant writes that she learned that most cases involving her patients should not be only handled from a doctor’s point of view but also from personal experience that can help her relate to each patient regardless of their background; Dr. Grant was taught this lesson when she came face to face with a unique patient. Throughout her essay, Dr. Grant writes about how she came to contact with a patient she had nicknamed Mr. G. According to Dr. Grant, “Mr. G is the personification of the irate, belligerent patient that you always dread dealing with because he is usually implacable” (181). It is evident that Dr. Grant lets her position as a doctor greatly impact her judgement placed on her patients, this is supported as she nicknamed the current patient Mr.G . To deal with Mr. G, Dr. Grant resorts to using all the skills she
Almost doctors and physicians in the world have worked at a hospital, so they must know many patients’ circumstances. They have to do many medical treatments when the patients come to the emergency room. It looks like horror films with many torture scenes, and the patients have to pay for their pains. The doctors have to give the decisions for every circumstance, so they are very stressful. They just want to die instead of suffering those medical treatments. In that time, the patients’ family just believes in the doctors and tells them to do whatever they can, but the doctors just do something that 's possible. Almost patients have died after that expensive medical treatments, but the doctors still do those medical procedures. That doctors did not have enough confidence to tell the truth to the patients’ families. Other doctors have more confidence, so they explain the health condition to the patients’ families. One time, the author could not save his patient, and the patient had found another doctor to help her. That doctor decided to cut her legs, but the patient still died in fourteen days
... this type of knowledge the nurse understood that her patient has a lack of social support and probably depressed. She encouraged Miss. Z to have a positive attitude to her life and current illness. The patient’s knowledge allowed me to understand that the client is having a difficult period in her life. She definitely needs a social worker and a support group to get through this challenging period. In the future I would like to observe more closely how this patient will respond to social worker’s help.
This decision also has to be evaluated on the basis of internal criteria. For the internal criteria, a person has to look inside oneself to evaluate the decision. Does the person feel satisfied with the decision and promote these values? The doctor’s decision does not give the inner sense of contentment; we experience “hate, discontent…confusion” (Panicola 71). Nobody wants to become a liar, thus it is not consistent with the kind of a person one would want to become.
However, three ethical decisions that this learning will make after viewing the film is to always assist individual to the best of your ability, despite personal issues with loved ones or friends; next, always report crimes, no matter the consequence they may have; and last but not least, stand up for what’s right, even if it leads to misfortune. The pros of each of these decisions is peace within yourself. However, one of the cons is dealing with negative pressures. For example, when you report a crime, you may be summoned to court, and have to deal with the negative criticism.
It was an effective film to show that clarifying goals of therapy is another way to provide effective counseling rather than giving advice and solving the clients’ problems. Working with a minority group client, I always try to be prepared, learn about my client culture, background, values, beliefs, create a plan, make sure my client doesn’t feel overwhelmed or discouraged by any of my statements, frame the issue in a personal context, and allow a moment of silence for the emotions to come out.
Disclosure is an essential aspect of a medical professional and his or her patients’ relationships. In the 1950s, the medical client and professional relationship was one of paternalism as opposed to the now fiduciary relationship. Then a paternalistic professional took all of the responsibilities, disclosed what he then thought was necessary, and essentially told the patien...
One crucial point that Lipkin fails to recognize is that medicine is patient-centered. Even though medicine has changed via technological advances, healthcare coverage, and ethics, one thing has remained constant – medicine provides care for the patient. More than that, medicine (especially primary care) emphasizes treating the patient as a person, not a diagnosis. In the story Being Mickey’s Doctor, the pediatrician who treats ten-year-old Mickey learns valuable lessons about being humanistic and compassionate. Mickey was a talkative child who would let Dr. Morhimann (the pediatrician) know the good and bad things about her treatment. She would complain when the doctors had conversations right outside her door, and didn’t like when Dr. Morhimann talked to Mickey’s siblings about the disease in a way that made it seem like the disease had replaced Mickey. The main point...
During the first few weeks of our FYS-X class, the students are required to view the movie “Dead Man Walking. Unfortunately, I was not able to make it to the showing at school, but I rented the DVD from Block Buster Video. I missed an opportunity to gain some bonding time with my classmates, but I could not get off work in the short notice that the class was told about the film viewing. When I viewed film, I had the pleasure of being in my home atmosphere, and I had the opportunity to better concentrate on the movie and the ability to rewind at certain points in the film. Before viewing the film, I was not too excited about having to watch it. I was under the impression that this movie would be boring and more of an educational video. After I watched the movie, I knew that my prediction about it was very inaccurate. “Dead Man Walking” is one of the finest films I have ever seen, and it has raised my bar of standards for a drama.
In one portion of Gilman’s story, the narrator describes an act of treatment that her husband and physician had implemented.
The purpose of this essay is to reflect and critically study an incident from a clinical setting whilst using a model of reflection. This will allow me to analyse and make sense of the incident and draw conclusions relating to personal learning outcomes. The significance of critical analysis and critical incidents will briefly be discussed followed by the process of reflection using the chosen model. The incident will then be described and analysed and the people involved introduced. (The names of the people involved have been changed to protect their privacy) and then I will examine issues raised in light of the recent literature relating to the incident. My essay will include a discussion of communication, interpersonal skills used in the incident, and finally evidence based practice. I will conclude with explaining what I have learned from the experience and how it will change my future actions.
The main character or the narrator is married to a doctor who is a typical male of those times. Also she has a brother who is in a similar profession as her husband. The narrator knows that she is not too well and that John - her husband does not realize the intensity of her sickness, he ignores her continuous efforts to make him aware of the real situation and her suffering. To make the situation worse he imposes his opinions on her even when it comes to her health.
...to doctor affected her relationship with her dad. They got closer and she was surprise that when her dad heard the news from his doctor, they didn’t have to tie him down in fact of his aggressive behavior “I sat beside him. This was my father” (Olds 440). She was expecting her dad to act crazy since she had always known him as an aggressive person but she did not get that from him. However, his attitude changed instantly and starts and the way her daughter viewed him as an alcoholic changed her perception of her dad.
Due to the information and instruction we received prior to participating in these patient interviews, there was several positive aspects of my interaction with my assigned patient. First, when moving onto a new question I would often reiterate part of the patient’s previous statement to both show that I was attentively listening and to justify the reason for asking that following question. An example of this was after briefly mentioning his wife, I asked “Speaking of your wife, how does she and the rest of your family support you through your medical treatments?” Positive aspects of my non-verbal communication include maintaining focused eye contact, maintaining a close, but appropriate distance between myself and the patient, and leaning forward with my hands together to express interest and support for the patient when they were talking. I also emulated the patient’s facial expressions as to have appropriate facial expressions when they were talking to me.
Newswriting, as it exists today, began with the adoption of the telegraph, which roughly coincided with the start of the American Civil War. The necessity of getting at story through before the telegraph’s occasional malfunction forced a radical change in the style of writing used in reporting. Before the telegraph, much of writing news was just that: writing. News was reported much like books were written. The reporter would set the scene with a detailed account of the setting or the mood and tell the tale just like any other narrative that one might read simply for pleasure. Since the telegraph made it possible for news to be printed the day after it happened; it was immediately adopted as the preferred method of getting news to the newsroom. Occasionally, however, the telegraph line would go down. Often this happened during a transmission, and the remainder of the message could not be sent until the line was repaired. Since a detailed description of the setting and the mood are useless without the actual piece of news, the system of writing, now known as the inverted pyramid, in which the most important items are written first in a concise manner, was born. The inverted pyramid system, born of necessity, was absorbed into newswriting over the proceeding century, and exists today as the standard style for reporting news.