Reflection Of A Patient

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REFLECTION - EARLY PATIENT CONTACT - JC1 PORTFOLIO ASSIGNMENT

On Tuesday November 15th 2016, I had met a patient named E.K. at the GP’s office. E.K. is a 77 year old Irish woman living in Dublin. Throughout her life, E.K. had been through a lot of unfortunate medical events. At an early age she was diagnosed as blind and went to a school for the blind. She went to college, worked in a factory and eventually had a daughter who had given her two grandchildren. A few years ago EK, had gotten into an accident on the bus where she had fallen and fracture her hip. She had many infections and had arthritis but currently she is easily coping with it. Blindness and a hip replacement is not her main worry in life. About one year ago, E.K. suddenly …show more content…

From E.K’s experience, it’s evident that patients hold high importance of a physicians patience, communication & listening to them. Queen’s University, School of Medicine CanMEDS framework is organized around communication, collaboration, health advocation and professionalism(1). A concept from the doctor-patient relationship lecture on ethics with regards to E.K.’s experience is compassion and care. Compassion and care is one of the components of medical professionalism. Care is an emotional commitment to act on behalf of a person with a significant relationship(2). As a doctor you are focused on the patient, where your attitude towards anothers welfare and an emotional response of sympathy towards another’s suffering …show more content…

Conclusion
Based on your analysis, summarize what you have learned from this patient experience.
In conclusion, based on E.K’s experiences, I have learnt the importance of patience, compassion and listening. A doctor must take time for their patients and listen to every word that they have to say and to not rush an appointment. A doctor must also help build a good relationship with their patient so that they can be encouraged to communicate all of their thoughts and feelings so that the right course of action for their health can occur. I believe that a good patient-doctor relationship can aid in the level of accuracy of the appointments evaluation
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