pilgrim Pathway

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  • Mastery in 20 Minutes?

    I’ve been doing a lot of reading about physician training and talking to doctors about their medical school experience.  What has intrigued me most is their training on the soft skills of medicine, namely communication with the patient.  Most of us with health issues are seeing specialists that were probably trained in the 80’s and…

  • Gaining a Sense of Control

    Welcome to Caregiver Friday!!! Let’s face it, we all have control issues.  Can you think of anything greater than everyone in the world responding the way you want them to?  Wouldn’t life be so much easier if all you had to do is pass out pages of a script for everyone to read from so…

  • When is Uncertainty a Blessing?

    One of the things we hope for when we go to the doctor is a definitive diagnosis.  If you’ve ever looked at the amount of information med students need to learn, book learn, in two years is utterly amazing.  Is it any wonder that even through years of education and training they don’t always have…

  • Lowest Common Denominators

    The truth is that those who are well and those who are facing a chronic or life-threatening illness share one big secret.  We all suffer from death anxiety.  It’s interesting because the Ancient Greeks felt that to live “the good life” you had to meditate on your death.  This year Irwin Yalom came out with…