Quotes About Patientcare

Doctors have limited time to listen to your story, but you must make sure they understand why you're there. Don't just say that you have chest pain - explain when it started, what you were doing, and how it felt. Write down key elements. Practice until you can tell it in 30 seconds or less.

An aha experienced decades ago by one of us is relevant to this point. Halfway through a grueling clinical internship, CP [Christopher Peterson] complained to his supervisor, "No one [meaning the patients] ever says thank you for anything I try to do." The response from the experienced psychiatrist stopped CP mid-whine: "If they [the patients] could say thank you, how many of them do you think would be in a psychiatric hospital?