by Deborah Bayer | Jun 23, 2023 | Effective Communication, End of Life Care
Last week I mentioned the first agreement in Don Miguel Ruiz’s book The Four Agreements, be impeccable with your word. Today’s post is about agreement #3, don’t make assumptions. Being a Palliative Care doctor helped me learn to be more direct in my speech. One...
by Deborah Bayer | Dec 17, 2015 | End of Life Care
Yesterday, a patient told me that “nothing was being done” to treat the cancer that had been diagnosed four months ago. I pulled up the most recent oncology note in the computer and read the details to him. Of course the oncologist had told him everything I was...
by Deborah Bayer | Sep 29, 2015 | End of Life Care
The whole Palliative Care community was saddened to hear of the death of Dr. Andy Billings. You can find his obituary here, and you can learn more about him in this article from the New York Times on “How Doctors Die.” I learned of his death just hours before I...
by Deborah Bayer | Jul 27, 2015 | End of Life Care
The physician leader literature is full of references to “the disruptive physician,” the one who openly humiliates and bullies other providers on the health care team. Often, one thinks of an older male physician denigrating a younger female nurse. Lack of open...
