David Elkin

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The Nocturnists · Burn the Map with David Elkin, MD · 16 Nov 2021 podcast

And then I happened to glance on the wall.

Where they list like the date and the patient goals.

And under goals, someone had scrawled to survive another day.

to feel better.

Like so it was feel better but misspelled, and I realized the patient must have written that.

And I was just reminding myself to try to take in the entire room, like really look around.

And I have to remind myself because when I came into the room I didn't see those things and

I think we all need those reminders.

We somehow focus too narrowly, and I think that's the potential downside of any analytic field.

And some of the training that I've had has actually been in things like art, where I'm really trying to train my eye to look broadly.

So looking at what the patient presumably had written on the wall just a few days ago really helped me to connect with the patient.

I didn't say anything about it, but I used it to inform myself this is a patient who doesn't

Know that he's gonna survive another day.

But that's very difficult and I have over thirty years out of residency.

So that's almost forty years since my c first clinical experience in medical school.

And so I feel like I'm still learning.

think it's a great question.

There's such a rich set of answers that are possible.

I think a lot of things are happening simultaneously.

I think people are again trying to do a really good job.

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