Learning to 'see' in the clinician-patient relationship.
Medical education tends to praise or pay lip-service to the art of observation, while systematically teaching the science of technology. To the extent you were taught observation skills as clinicians, you may have learned how to listen and touch but not usually how to 'see' your patients and yourself. This paper considers how to see in the clinician-patient relationship, not merely in an optical sense but also to increase your perceptiveness. We suggest 10 strategies to enhance your ability to see.
Buetow
Stephen
S
Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland Mail Centre, Auckland 1142, New Zealand. s.buetow@auckland.ac.nz
Kenealy
Tim
T
D015510:Clinical Medicine; D006801:Humans; D009520:New Zealand; D019370:Observation; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations