SERIES: What Do You Say to Your Patient?

May 29th, 2014

SERIES: What Do You Say to Your Patient?

Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM

CardioExchange is introducing a new series to address communication with patients about complex or controversial topics.

We’ll present a scenario featuring an aspect of evidence-based medicine that is nuanced or difficult to understand and ask you to share how you’d explain it to your patient. Do you have any visual tools or calculators that help you to translate the information to your patient? Is there a script that you follow with certain topics? What do you say to your patient?

By discussing this within the CardioExchange community, we’ll learn more from each other about patient communication in general and also share information on discussing current topics that you may encounter with your patients. Thanks in advance for your participation.

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CardioExchange, an NEJM practice community for medical professionals dedicated to improving cardiac patient care, was active from 2009 to 2015. CardioExchange fostered discussion between clinicians from across the globe.

May 29th, 2014