I will gladly put on a mask if a patient requests. I can't recall this happening more than once. I am an ENT so I am in in everyone's grill every day. Most patients have been relieved to be able to remove the masks when "permitted."
Patient's faces express incredulity at the state of medical care (official dogma/recommendations, provider …
I will gladly put on a mask if a patient requests. I can't recall this happening more than once. I am an ENT so I am in in everyone's grill every day. Most patients have been relieved to be able to remove the masks when "permitted."
Patient's faces express incredulity at the state of medical care (official dogma/recommendations, provider turnover, difficulty plugging in to the system, feeling like sausage in the medical machine when plugged in for care, decreased time with a "provider" who is listening, not feeling a logic in care recommendations, more prescribing/infrequent de-prescribing....... ). When I validate their concerns, they have a sense of relief and are eager to understand the larger cultural context for trends they see and feel, which I help them articulate and understand. The lack of a sense of understanding and control feeds increasing depression, anxiety, progressive health declines and is aggravated by cumulative medication lists/side effects from more and more medications but declining degrees of relief.
The para COVID phenomena have exposed dark trends and dysfunction that are ever-present but potentiated by deterioration in our traditional sorces for sensemaking and the "crisis" that exposed human and institutional capture, fragility, and decline.
Dr. Prasad and others who are plugged-in and having these discussions help us to try to heal individuals, familes, and their communities. Hopefully we will move through this phase of humanity without being overwhelmed by the darks trends that have followed us and frequently dominated us throughout our history. History has offered rare periods of insight and relief from these inclinations. We are our own worst enemies and seem ill equipped to manage the assaults on the gifts that the Enlightenment has bestowed.
I will gladly put on a mask if a patient requests. I can't recall this happening more than once. I am an ENT so I am in in everyone's grill every day. Most patients have been relieved to be able to remove the masks when "permitted."
Patient's faces express incredulity at the state of medical care (official dogma/recommendations, provider turnover, difficulty plugging in to the system, feeling like sausage in the medical machine when plugged in for care, decreased time with a "provider" who is listening, not feeling a logic in care recommendations, more prescribing/infrequent de-prescribing....... ). When I validate their concerns, they have a sense of relief and are eager to understand the larger cultural context for trends they see and feel, which I help them articulate and understand. The lack of a sense of understanding and control feeds increasing depression, anxiety, progressive health declines and is aggravated by cumulative medication lists/side effects from more and more medications but declining degrees of relief.
The para COVID phenomena have exposed dark trends and dysfunction that are ever-present but potentiated by deterioration in our traditional sorces for sensemaking and the "crisis" that exposed human and institutional capture, fragility, and decline.
Dr. Prasad and others who are plugged-in and having these discussions help us to try to heal individuals, familes, and their communities. Hopefully we will move through this phase of humanity without being overwhelmed by the darks trends that have followed us and frequently dominated us throughout our history. History has offered rare periods of insight and relief from these inclinations. We are our own worst enemies and seem ill equipped to manage the assaults on the gifts that the Enlightenment has bestowed.