David Elkin
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521 appearances
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first heard Nov 2021
last heard Nov 2021
David Elkin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And as an exercise, I've challenged myself and also the students and residents to leave a space so at least with one of the patients that they work with, just ask them, who are you as a person?
And see what they do with the question and not start with what brought you to the hospital or what brought you to the clinic.
Because that is the way we start out.
And it's dehumanizing in many ways.
It says, I'm only interested in you as a disease, rather than I'm interested in who you are.
And it really is an amazing experience to interview a patient by starting out and asking them about themselves.
And it doesn't have to take a lot of time.
It can be five or ten minutes.
But then when you're finding out,
About their illness, and you're asking about how it's affected them, you really get a sense of who they are and what that illness represents to them.
And you get a sense of the challenges for them and what are going to be the difficulties and how you can help them.
So I think the story is one of the most important tools that we have.
And then other tools I think.
The arts, the humanities, I mentioned art a little while ago, but learning to look around the room, learning to take in what's there.
That for me is always an important step because there's so many interesting clues.
Are there cards?
Are there flowers?
Is there nothing but hospital-provided equipment?
Which says a lot about a person who's very ill, right?
If there's no one leaving anything for them, maybe there's no one coming to visit them.
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