Welcome to the San Jose Blog
Hi there. I've created this blog so that friends and family can keep up to date on what is going on down in San Jose. THere is now a computer installed with a satellite internet connection, enableing internet use, email, and even tele consulting! Keep an eye out here for daily updates from the students, nurses, doctors and maybe even villagers of San Jose!
posted by Doc Shazam @ 3:20 PM
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Good job! It will be great to be able to keep in touch
and know what you are accomplishing every day.
As I read the Oct 14 letter on "The Power of Pills and Good patience," I literally began to cry for joy that new doctors are being exposed to opportunities to learn such important although basic and normally neglected lessons about communications with patients.
Having just been through a couple months of abuse and miscommunications (as well as ocassionally gratifying communication with doctors and nurses in offices, hospitals, and nursing homes, I was so happy to see a concern among medical professionals to attend to these matters.
My eyes were so welling with tears of happiness as I approached the end of the article, I could barely read the name of the author.
However, when I finally had smeared the tears away, the floodgates of the Hoover Dam seemed to forth from my eyes. For truth in congratulations requires that I admit my thrill soon turned to shivers of pride in discovering that the author was my daughter.
Knowing how reluctant she has always been to accept praise that she will be upset with me for this note of approbation, I only want to tell everyone that if all the medical professionals I had dealt with had the attitude toward communication that she expressed, I would not have had such a hard time remembering to call the nursing home by that proper name instead of a "funeral home" that I kept calling it inadvertantly.
However, I can take no credit for my daughter having learned so much about communication, especially, non-verbal communication. She might have had some inspiration from her mother who teaches speech and nonverbal communication as she was growing up. So she shouldn't get too much of a swelled head!
Actually, while I'm in extreme pain, I'm the sort of patient my daughter notes who comes in incoherent with a shopping list of complaints and fears. At such times, it would be nice to have a doctor who realized that I am incapable of being coherent--I need a doctor with the patience to really understand patients who have little or no patience--(especially with being asked to repeatedly fill out medical histories! Why can't family doctors just computerize those when a patient is not ill and put them on a server that requires nothing but a signature to access?)
Hell, as you can see, I am barely coherent when I'm in the thralls of joy and pride. How could I ever be succinct and clear when I wish I were dead from the pain?
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