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How doctors can have successful crucial conversations

Frances Mei Hardin, MD & Kim Downey, PT
Physician
February 10, 2024

One thing that all those years of education, medical training, and textbook studying can never quite fully prepare us for as physicians is crucial conversations with our patients. There’s an element to mastering these conversations that comes with being an attending physician, bearing sole provider responsibility, and having them ourselves. They may start off clunky at first in early practice, but we hope to continually improve with time.

In my practice …

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How doctors can have successful crucial conversations

Skills for resident physicians to increase distress tolerance

Frances Mei Hardin, MD
Physician
October 5, 2023

Picture yourself as a junior resident on morning rounds with a senior and a rotating intern. You’ve been up almost all night on call, and you’re almost at the end of the patient list. Your senior asks you about the next patient, and you stumble. You can’t find your notes, and you’re blanking on the answer. Your senior becomes impatient and starts to raise their voice. How do you react?

If …

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Skills for resident physicians to increase distress tolerance

5 reasons to get involved in organized medicine

Frances Mei Hardin, MD
Policy
June 24, 2018

The following are intended to inspire to medical students and residents to learn more about organized medicine. Whether it be at the national, state, county, or specialty level, there are numerous societies with opportunities for contribution.

1. To pull back the curtain. Many physicians are innately curious and like to “see how the sausage is made,” so to speak. There is a great deal of policy behind the scenes of our …

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5 reasons to get involved in organized medicine

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