This was my first week on my general neurology rotations. In addition to encountering the always fascinating variety of neuropathophysiology ,this was a week that firmly underscored how important personal relationships continue to be to the work of caring for patients. Various aspects of this reality were all centered into a single case. The first […]
Loving Medicine
I have little doubt that most of us in medical school and beyond got their because we love medicine but it can become easy to forget what that really means. Because as one of the world’s best known doctors the eponymous protagonist of Dr. Who reminds us “love, it’s not an emotion. Love is a […]
Do “Love Languages” Matter in Patient Care?
Have you ever read the book or taken the quiz to find out your “love language?” There are 5 of them—words of affirmation, quality time, gifts, acts of service, physical touch. I’m pretty split between words of affirmation and physical touch. I always wondered, how does this relate to patient care or does it even […]
