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We Have Been Socialized From Childhood To Be Passive When A Patient – But That Doesn’t Mean We Are Not Engaged

Jan 21, 2014 | Favorite Posts, Patient & Clinician Role Issues, Patient Engagement, Roles Blog

In a recent email exchange, the physician I was corresponding with wrote “many people [that] go to see doctors are not engaged in their health.” My normal reply would have been “what do you mean not engaged…these people wouldn’t be in the doctor’s office if they...

The Traditional Patient “Sick Role” Is A Major Barrier To High Quality Health Care

Sep 18, 2012 | All, Ask Questions Blog, Asks Questions, Favorite Posts, Passive Sick Role, Patient & Clinician Role Issues, Physician-Driven/Paternalistic Communication, Physician-Patient Communications, Physician-Patient Communications Blog, Quote-Patient-Initiated-Conversations, Roles Blog

Each of us wears many different “hats” throughout the course of the day. We are an employee, a wife, a father, a club member, a consumer and so on. It comes as no surprise that our thinking, what we say, and how we say it at any particular time coincides with the...

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We Have Been Socialized From Childhood To Be Passive When A Patient – But That Doesn’t Mean We Are Not Engaged

The Traditional Patient “Sick Role” Is A Major Barrier To High Quality Health Care

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