Extremely common experience in medicine – with both patients and colleagues I consult! Often, the public perception of the medical field revolves around what actionable item are you going to do to make me feel better. I frequently find that walking my patients through the complexities of my own thought process gives them a look behind the curtain as to why there isn’t always an immediate or obvious answer. Likewise, the physicians who I find to be the best consultants are not the ones that take my patient for a needed procedure; rather, they’re the ones who “show me their work” when I reach out to them for their expertise.
Extremely common experience in medicine – with both patients and colleagues I consult! Often, the public perception of the medical field revolves around what actionable item are you going to do to make me feel better. I frequently find that walking my patients through the complexities of my own thought process gives them a look behind the curtain as to why there isn’t always an immediate or obvious answer. Likewise, the physicians who I find to be the best consultants are not the ones that take my patient for a needed procedure; rather, they’re the ones who “show me their work” when I reach out to them for their expertise.