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Shame Between Doctors and Patients with Aaron Lazare

September 19, 2016 by webmaster

Psychiatrist Aaron Lazare talks about the impact of shame and humiliation, and how to repair the damage they cause. He also discusses how shame can complicate the relationship between doctors and patients, and what can be done to reduce it.

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Filed Under: Emotions, Mental Health Tagged With: medical encounter, Medical Trauma, medicine, Shame

How Health Care Providers Can Prevent Domestic Violence with Cathy Plourde

April 18, 2012 by ssradmin

Safe Space Radio interviews playwright Cathy Plourde, Founder of Add Verb productions. Her play, Major Medical Breakthrough, was written to inspire health care providers to screen their patients for domestic violence—especially important since only 10-19% of doctors report that they screen their patients routinely for domestic violence. Cathy gives a thoughtful description of why providers are …read more »

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Filed Under: Mental Health, Sexuality Tagged With: add verb, difficult conversations, Domestic Violence, medical encounter, medical practice, medicine, providers, screening, sexual trauma, Trauma, treatment

Illness Stories with Art Frank

October 5, 2011 by ssradmin

Author Art Frank describes his own experience with an early heart attack and later cancer. He describes the way the medical world can be oblivious to the patient’s needs and subjective experience, and the importance of finding your own voice after your body has been colonized by treatment. He offered examples of the ways that …read more »

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Filed Under: Emotions, Mental Health Tagged With: body memory, cancer, doctors, heart attack, illness, medical encounter, medical providers, Medical Trauma, medicine, patient experience, Sickness, treatment

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