Just had a two minute conversation with a patient about nocturnal enuresis, and whether the monkey or the chauffeur is driving (you’ll get this if you were at the Adaptability Research Symposium previously), and she is referring two friends kids in and said both the mothers are out of ideas and nothing is making a difference.
Two things:
First, sorry for the run-on sentence.
Secondly, how hard was that? Pretty easy. Why are we not overwhelmed with organic manifestation of VS in our offices like the last generation? Simple, we stopped having the right conversations.
Dr. Barge used to say often, “You should never remove hope from a patient.”
What he meant is that when you remove their hope you leave them cloaked only in the tattered rags in fear. And as he also said, “Fear is the fuel that fires the furnace of disease.”
Be fearless…and permit the same within your patients.