Virtuoso general practice

Senior, Tim

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“…8 Being able to talk well with patients, especially those with whom we don't naturally get on, is an ability at once mundane and elusive, but it is important, the hallmark of the 'virtuoso GP'. 9 And like so many other important things, it boils down to a simple principle: seeing and hearing someone as another person and letting them know that they've been seen and heard.…”

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Seeing and hearing

Hoban¹

2023

Br J Gen Pract

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Ask any doctor, and they'll tell you that talking to patients can be difficult. Mind you, ask any patient and they'll tell you that talking to doctors can be really difficult too. The Consultation, that mythical and commonplace occasion during which both processes occur, can sometimes feel like a shared illusion of communication, 1 which leaves both parties none the wiser.Doctors are routinely trained in communication skills now, although there are times when what I really want is to send my patients on the course. Even as I listen, I find myself willing the person opposite to give me just a little more to work with, or a little less. There are so many potential barriers to understanding each other, from the lack of a shared language, verbal or non-verbal, to a divergence of expectations or simple time pressure. And yet, I have a suspicion that what underlies our difficulties is often something else.Patients sometimes talk in ways that make little sense to us, repeating seemingly unimportant details, abruptly changing subject, and even contradicting themselves. We sit patiently, waiting for 'usable intel', or grab hold of the first thing we can. Even when a coherent thread emerges and we offer a diagnosis and management plan, the response can be surprisingly cool. What escapes us is that people talk like this for the same reason they hold their hand in front of them on first meeting someone: not to have it scrutinised, but to bridge a gap. In general, people overestimate the extent to which this is necessary. 2 We worry that strangers are different and won't understand or like us, and this can make it difficult to talk about things that matter, especially with someone as famously busy as a doctor.

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Seeing and hearing

Hoban¹

2023

Br J Gen Pract

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“…6 Making fast professional relationships is not easy -Tim Senior reflects that establishing a rapport with a patient is like giving a virtuoso recital with music that one has not previously seen. 7 Beatrice Khater and Bassem R Saab at the American University of Beirut use the film The Last King of Scotland, set in Idi Amin's Uganda, to explore the unequal and exploitative relationships initiated through bribery and corruption. 8 Nada Khan asks us to consider the multiplicity of professions delivering clinical services in primary care and their relationship to patients and to us.…”

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‘Only connect’ … relationships and GP life

Papanikitas¹

2022

Br J Gen Pract

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No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less … ' wrote the poet John Donne. 1 The idea that people are connected in fundamental ways is echoed by EM Forster in the novel Howards End with its infamous epigraph, 'Only connect'. 2 Fans of The House of God author Samuel Shem will also recognise the emphasis on connection throughout his medical and non-medical fiction. 3 British GPs also endorse the idea of connecting with others through holistic practice and therapeutic relationships. Theories of relationship-based care have been adopted by the Royal College of General Practitioners. 4

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Virtuoso general practice

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