State of Vet Care in the US
After living overseas for so long returning to the US always has it's surprises. But one of the worst was the state of Veterinary Care in the US. Now I have had dogs all of my life, NO ONE loves th...
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An American Doctor by the name of Siddartha Mukherjee wrote a book called THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES, a biography of Cancer, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize.
His new book THE LAWS OF MEDICINE is a must read for any doctor, VET patient or just anyone interested in the state of health care.
The thrust of the book is that Doctors need to Talk LESS and LISTEN more. They need to trust in their intuition. They need to INQUIRE and understand a patients home, work and other environments before rushing off to get tests and more tests. Tests are important for sure. But as he points out many times they are useless without knowing what is really going on in a persons life.
In an interview he did with NPR he sited a study that shows that the average patient gets out only seven words before being interrupted by the doctor.
Read this book and tell me VETS could not benefit from the same advice. They are unfortunately following too closely in the footsteps of Physicians.
His new book THE LAWS OF MEDICINE is a must read for any doctor, VET patient or just anyone interested in the state of health care.
The thrust of the book is that Doctors need to Talk LESS and LISTEN more. They need to trust in their intuition. They need to INQUIRE and understand a patients home, work and other environments before rushing off to get tests and more tests. Tests are important for sure. But as he points out many times they are useless without knowing what is really going on in a persons life.
In an interview he did with NPR he sited a study that shows that the average patient gets out only seven words before being interrupted by the doctor.
Read this book and tell me VETS could not benefit from the same advice. They are unfortunately following too closely in the footsteps of Physicians.
