Interrupting Your Patient

Pelvic PT Rising · Jul 20, 2023 · 30m · transcript

Does the thought of interrupting your patient make you feel deeply uncomfortable?

As a field we pride ourselves on allowing our patients to tell their full story. To ensuring they feel heard. And that's critically important.

But....there's a need for us, as providers, to reclaim control of the conversation, finding the balance between deeply understanding patient narratives and being efficient in diagnosis.

We discuss the delicate art of interrupting; it's not simply about cutting them off, but doing so tactfully with the confidence of a clinician and the empathy of a caregiver.

We explore…