INDS 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Gabi Balint, Mammography, Decision Aids

• School: McGill University
• Department: Interndisciplinary Studies
• Course: INDS 111
• Professor: Anne Andermann

Document Summary

Apathy sets in during the 3rd year of medical school, watch out! You become busy, tired ways to counteract this include: improving interpersonal skills, Analyzing audio- or video-taped encounters with patients, Engaging in the balint method of small-group improving narrative skills, discussion. Physicians must fight against apathy so they can overcome health inequities: Because frontline health workers are in a privileged position to witness the health and social problems that their patients face . The clear toolkit was developed by an international collaboration of researchers and policy makers to help frontline health workers tackle the social causes of poor health. Treating the immediate health problem, asking about underlying social problems, referring to local social support resources, advocating for more supportive environments: two levels of advocacy: patient level (agency) and community level (activism--social determinants) For instance, health leads expands clinics" capacity to address basic resource needs often.