There is More to Thank You than Meets the Eye
Academic Medicine Podcast
English - July 04, 2022 11:00 - 4 minutes - 10 MB - ★★★★ - 43 ratingsEducation Health & Fitness Medicine education faculty learners medicine physicians policy storytelling trainees Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Next time a patient thanks me, I will not let self-conscious worries diminish their words. True thankfulness reflects deep humanistic connection and is unburdened by the hierarchies of medicine.
Paulina M. Devlin, a first-year obstetrics and gynecology resident at the University of Utah Health in Salt Lake City, Utah, reflects on the expression of gratitude between patients and providers.
The essay read in this episode was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the July 2022 issue of Academic Medicine. Read the essay at academicmedicine.org.