Staff About How Can We Help Patients Better

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Staff about how can we help patients better take care of their illnesses like diabetes how can we more effective we talk with patients who say yeah I know I should get my screen-test but I just don't want to do it are we have more effective conversations and I think that leaders in this really come from the field of addiction medicine interesting William Miller and Stephen Roe nick they took Carl Rogers patient client-centered approach to use psychotherapy and applied it with one of the most challenging patients if you will patients that suffer addiction and learned that you really get bill where if you don't start with where the patient is at so.

We want to learn from the and afford opportunities for all this to learn how to do that better it's maybe it's kind of like for people who have had teenagers you were fairly quickly that if you tell them what to do doesn't always go so well we need to seek first to understand before we on you then oppose our understanding on them let me ask you to join and he knows do we have any cultural challenges in Hawaii that others might not have with that patients said patient-centered this model on in my experience at some the Asian culture here are very accepting up Tom dean at the position guidance in the day exchange whereas I found when I was practicing on the mainland that there was a little bit more push back.

That this economic challenge for us but we just have to come along based on our own cultural tenants or what are you what do you think you might think you know when it things that makes living way such a rich experiences divers culture cultural background people that her neighbors here and harm patient-centered yes effective communication is all about related to the person One Moment Essential Day Cream that sent right here and you know example experience what I came here for after living in Italy for four years and I'm talking about diabetic so you can be eaten bread and pasta they're like me out you know just the some superficial example but you got to make a real and meaningful forth person you're talking with some they can act upon and this is that was really a central message that we had from professor last week when he was speaking about how at in that Native Hawaiian community there's been a fairly large disconnect between patients getting in seeking on their own be happen advocacy position for their own health that they suffer a lot more complications from diabetes and hypertension and heart disease and not only their short to access but there's a you know is short empowerment.
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