Understanding patients' decisions: Cognitive and emotional perspectives.
But Dr. Boyer argued that analysts' feelings could be important tools in understanding patients and helping the analysis to progress.
In the absence of real understanding, patients vacillated about their futures.
I see two possible answers, but usually only hear one: Understanding patients' experiences is at the heart of empathy.
What design thinking taught them, several participants said, is that understanding patients begins by listening to them.
This leads me on to the inclusion and focus in the book on the human-need theory and understanding patients' perceptions of local anaesthesia.
Through literature, she learned how stories are built and told, and translated that to listening to, and better understanding, patients.
Understanding patients' perceptions about TB will enable better design of a client-oriented comprehensive programme for tuberculosis.
Understanding patients' perspective and experiences is an undoubted asset for efficient health interventions and improved clinical concordance.
Understanding patients' personal stories and remedying the real fears people have about the quality of NHS care is as important as providing a safe emergency response for the most vulnerable.
Groopman powerfully conveys the complexity of the physician's role, the anxiety and uncertainty that dog his every step, the difficulties that arise in understanding patients, eliciting their stories, making a diagnosis.
