by Lissa Rankin | Jul 5, 2011 | Physical Health
Last week I wrote about the Doctor-Patient Relationship of the broken, outdated, patriarchal health care system of The Old Medicine. Today, I’m going out on a limb to suggest a new kind of Doctor-Patient Relationship, the kind I practice and I hope others in the new...
by Lissa Rankin | Jun 29, 2011 | Physical Health
When I was training to become a physician, the rules of the broken, outdated, patriarchal medical system were made clear to me. They went something like this. The Old Medicine As your doctor, I will sacrifice everything in my personal life in order to fix what is...
by Lissa Rankin | Jun 19, 2011 | Physical Health
Given the state of our broken health care system, I feel like we doctors don’t have much right to ask our patients how to behave, since most of us are falling far short of how our patients would prefer we behaved. As a patient, you may feel rushed, unheard, and...
