A trip to healthcare

This narrative shares how my experience with two colonoscopies and three surgeries in one year taught me that I am not so good at engaging in treatment decisions. I thought I was. This essay sets out where I made my mistakes, why I believe I made those mistakes, and how the hospitals, intentionally...

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Autor principal:	david matz
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	The Beryl Institute 2017
Materias:	patient engagement patient involvement healthcare decision-making patient experience Medicine (General) R5-920 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/aebe1f8e23b24543873d2c4a1fedb88b
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:aebe1f8e23b24543873d2c4a1fedb88b2021-11-15T04:22:04ZA trip to healthcare2372-0247https://doaj.org/article/aebe1f8e23b24543873d2c4a1fedb88b2017-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://pxjournal.org/journal/vol4/iss2/3https://doaj.org/toc/2372-0247This narrative shares how my experience with two colonoscopies and three surgeries in one year taught me that I am not so good at engaging in treatment decisions. I thought I was. This essay sets out where I made my mistakes, why I believe I made those mistakes, and how the hospitals, intentionally or not, made good decision-making harder. I offer two suggestions for enhancing the role of the patient in decision-making including 1) Every doctor in a diagnostic-decision-making interview should use the sentence “You have some choices here.” The doctor will have preferences, of course, but the patient needs to hear that there is more than one way to take the next step and 2) For diagnostic-decision-making moments, all doctors (and hospitals) should provide patients with support personnel to help the patients use decision-aids, prepare for discussions with doctors, and make the decisions. I conclude with why this is critical in healthcare today.david matzThe Beryl Institutearticlepatient engagementpatient involvementhealthcare decision-makingpatient experienceMedicine (General)R5-920Public aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENPatient Experience Journal (2017)
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description	This narrative shares how my experience with two colonoscopies and three surgeries in one year taught me that I am not so good at engaging in treatment decisions. I thought I was. This essay sets out where I made my mistakes, why I believe I made those mistakes, and how the hospitals, intentionally or not, made good decision-making harder. I offer two suggestions for enhancing the role of the patient in decision-making including 1) Every doctor in a diagnostic-decision-making interview should use the sentence “You have some choices here.” The doctor will have preferences, of course, but the patient needs to hear that there is more than one way to take the next step and 2) For diagnostic-decision-making moments, all doctors (and hospitals) should provide patients with support personnel to help the patients use decision-aids, prepare for discussions with doctors, and make the decisions. I conclude with why this is critical in healthcare today.
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A trip to healthcare

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