NEW MEDICINE TRAINING CLIPS

An open, empowering and compassionate patient-provider relationship is the foundation of integrative medicine. The importance of connection cannot be underestimated as it is through this relationship that patients´ innate wisdom and inner healing capacities can be identified, nurtured and brought into play as part of the "medicine" that will help them heal.

Provided here, thanks to the Bravewell Collaborative in partnership with the Gold Foundation, are six short, five-minute New Medicine training videos that address the patient-provider relationship.

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Being Ill is Transformative.

Robert Jaffee, MD, talks about his experience with a life-threatening illness and how it transformed the way he thinks about medicine and the needs of patients.
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Every Patient Comes to a Doctor for One Thing.

Jerome Groopman, MD, of Harvard Medical School talks about hope and the need for physicians to always offer patients the possibility, however slim, for a better future.
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A Patient’s Sense of Abandonment.

Robert Jaffee, MD, relates how he was emotionally and mentally abandoned by his doctors as his illness worsened, a fact that left him distraught and upset at a time when he most needed comfort.
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Listening to the Story is Critical.

Arthur Kleinman, MD, of Harvard Medical School stresses the importance of listening to the patient´s story so that the medical intervention can be tailored to meet their needs and not the needs of the caregiver.
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Maeve’s Story: One Patient’s Experience with the Wrong Doctor.

A lack of compassion and empathy on the part of physicians can be devastating to patients. Maeve Kinkaid´s initial encounter with a breast cancer surgeon left her feeling powerless and lost.
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Maeve’s Story: The Resolution.

After firing her surgeon and finding another with whom she felt a connection, Maeve´s advice is, "Find a Physician who makes you feel empowered and smart, not passive and dumb."
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