How to do Values based healthcare
How well do you understand the values your patient holds? What do they care about besides just getting their problem fixed? We can “fix” their problem AND not actually...
A journey of self-development
We need to develop personally at least as much as we need to develop professionally if we want to deliver great healthcare. I’m joined by Grant Downie OBE, medical...
Expanding our healthcare beliefs
How have your beliefs about the healthcare you deliver evolved over the time you’ve been practicing? What’s shaped that evolution? How do you try to consciously evolve your beliefs?...
Empathy is a trainable skill
Training for person perception and communication needs the same rigor and status as “hard skills training” This episode’s guest is Danielle Blanch Hartigan, PhD, MPH who is social scientist...
A problem solving approach to person centred care
The concept of person-centred care is a complex one. To deliver true person-centred care there are a lot of components to be aware of and no definitive “How-to” manual....
Sleep, Treat, Perform, Repeat – Performance Healthcare
Delivering healthcare happens in a fast paced, often high stress and high stakes environment. The pressure is on us as providers to perform day in and day out to...
Sleep, Treat, Perform, Repeat – Performance Healthcare
Delivering healthcare happens in a fast paced, often high stress and high stakes environment. The pressure is on us as providers to perform day in and day out to...
Making sense of the rules of health
How do people make sense of their health? And how does that inform their health behaviours? Two questions that this week’s guest Ben Darlow has been pondering for quite...
Putting the CARE in Healthcare
Who teaches us how to care? As health professionals we learn the “health” side of healthcare from textbooks, and lectures, and reviewed practice. BUT has anyone ever taught you...