by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
When I worked in hospice palliative care, I remember being gobsmacked while reading in a medical journal one day about Dr. Harvey Chochinov’s research on Dignity Therapy out of the Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit. His studies determined that – wait for it! – patients feel better when their doctors listen to them. This of course sounds like a no-brainer until it hits you upside the head that, apparently, not all doctors know this fact to be true.
Is it actually possible, I wondered at the time, that doctors thumbing through journals madly take notes when they discover a surprisingly shocking news flash like this?
Recently, I ran across yet another fine example of the bleedin’ obvious that makes me crazy-go-nuts, as my Ukrainian relatives would say. Continue reading
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It’s a stressful time to be a patient these days, what with expectations running high that we should be both empowered and engaged while 
I’ve been reading lately about something called the 
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