Busy professionals become burdened with time deadlines, ineffectual work, and soon a lack of effort. How can professionals maintain genuine concern and compassion for their causes?
A great question! I've thought about it and often discussed it with my students and colleagues.
Self-care and commitment to and understanding of the people we serve came to mind. About self-care, it is our professional and personal responsibility to take care of ourselves so as to avoid burnout and be effective. Although self-care is unique to each professional, it is imperative that every professional exercise it.
In terms of expressing genuine compassion, it is critical that the professional remind him/herself of his/her commitment to the people s/he serves. Fully understanding the perceived reality of the people s/he serves would help him/her to empathize with them and express his/her authentic compassion to them.
Express genuine compassion in my profession as Clinician is not easy, but if fundamental and indispensable to fulfill our professional mission.
Much of the therapeutic effect (approximately 50%) has to do with the type of communication that the doctor can establish with your patient, because he is the one "who knows of his condition" as medical books "have only typical disease "models.
That is, to establish a proper doctor-patient relationship (MP) is the gateway to the suffering, subjectivity and actual experience of the condition, which at the same time we empowered by the confidence that we can, to investigate more during interaction about the mental, physical and emotional impact of the condition in question.
So that at the end of the first phase of the relationship MP, we trust it and simultaneously, we doctors, we will have achieved a lesser to greater degree, empathy and understanding, not only intellectual but emotional about the suffering and suffering patient, and therefore also genuine compassion.
All this in the best case, leads naturally to the diagnostic decision to deepen the etiology or causes of your condition and find the best treatment (pharmacological drug and No) ad-oc for the patient.
At the end of the M-P and decision-therapeutic and non-therapeutic decisions is achieved with the patient benefit (improvement in their condition) of about 80-90% effective.
Of course self-care physical, mental and emotional therapist, it is necessary for often long-term, is the risk of excessive emotional involucre doctor with the patient runs, which ultimately leads to a condition known by the name of "Physical Syndrome Emotional Wear"
Annex publication of a server, which describe in detail the types of relationship MP based on models of human communication.
Sincerely
Dr. Jose Luis Garcia Vigil
Chapter La relación médico-paciente como un modelo de comunicación humana
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