{"id":528,"date":"2021-06-02T00:55:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T00:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seideintegrativehealth.com\/?p=528"},"modified":"2021-06-08T18:46:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T18:46:03","slug":"relationship-centered-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seideintegrativehealth.com\/relationship-centered-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Relationship-Centered Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Right off the bat, I’m going to say something that will raise some eyebrows amongst fellow healthcare providers…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Patient-Centered Care is a bad idea.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve been in practice coming up on 30 years (including medical school), and so I’ve seen the evolution of various initiatives that later went sour; think of “Pain as the Fifth Vital Sign” and the opioid epidemic, or “Meaningful Use” that gives yet another reason to hate on your EMR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Like these and others, “Patient-Centered Care” began with noble intentions: focus on what the patient needs, rather than the hospital or physician or pharmaceutical company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At its best, Patient-Centered Care is a hollow promise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When healthcare requires big, immobile, expensive things like MRI scanners, and chemotherapy requires trained nurses and hazmat teams in the event of spillage, then the idea that we take care of patients where they<\/em> are is just not true. <\/p>\n\n\n\n No one brings the MRI scanner to the patient who lives off the grid in Wyoming. And you cannot ask that your mastectomy happen on your kitchen table. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At its worst, Patient-Centered Care makes sick people sicker, shutting them behind doors and separating them from the “well” people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The past year of isolation has clarified for me the landscape of suffering that emerges when patients are disconnected from family, caregivers and community. I believe IV medications and invasive procedures are less effective without there also being human touch and closeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe problem with Patient-Centered Care<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Technology isn’t the answer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n