Checking the Boxes
Academic Medicine Podcast
English - June 15, 2020 11:00 - 3 minutes - 7.82 MB - ★★★★ - 43 ratingsEducation Health & Fitness Medicine faculty learners policy education medicine physicians storytelling trainees Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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"I turned around to perform a different kind of survey—one that had no checklist because it was never really complete. ... For the first time, I appreciated his life, not his illness or the data we tracked along with it."
Dr. Spencer Keil remembers a mentor who reminded him that caring for patients is about more than checking boxes. It's about getting to know a patient as a person outside a diagnosis.
This essay was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the June 2020 issue of Academic Medicine. Read the essay at academicmedicine.org.