Making the Case for Compassion

The world has felt like a stressful place for the past few years, but the past two weeks have really increased the ambient stress in the...

If you are healthy enough not to need many medications or mobile enough not to need many assistive devices, you may not have received a...

Lately at work, it feels like every patient I see is having a communication issue with medical providers. One person has been trying for...

Last week, I discussed a specific example of discrimination currently happening in the health care world. It’s heart breaking and not...

I talk a lot about compassionate care being a systems issue – not just an individual provider’s responsibility, but also the...

I was nervous for my first patient as a pelvic health therapist. I had gone through the required training, so i had the technical...

My first real encounter with compassionate care occurred during the “observation hours” each PT school applicant is required to log. I...

When I talk about compassion in the clinic or in my personal life, this point of view inevitably comes up: even if we intend to be...

For several years, I treated patients with pelvic floor dysfunction, exclusively. I was nervous to enter that field of therapy. Pelvic...

As we enter the post-holiday winter, especially in this omicron surge, I am spending a lot of time telling myself that winter 2022 will...

Even before COVID-19, burnout was a major problem in health care. A 2012 study[1] found that 46% of physicians had at least one symptom...

For my first 3 years as a therapist, I worked in a skilled nursing facility (SNF). All SNFs do not all have the same set up, but ours...

In order to have a well-rounded and complete discussion of compassionate care, I don’t want to introduce new patient stories or continue...

When I think about patients with a long medical history, especially like the one I referenced in my last post, the take home message for...

A few weeks ago, I did the first progress note for a patient that I’d seen for a little over a month. He has a progressive neurologic...